The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1902-07-30
LETTERS LEFT BY HUMES.
GoIconda Suicide Told Of Criminal Career or
the Coast.


the Coast.
A Golconda correspondent has forward
ed copies of the letters left by A. p. Nc
MILAN, or Humes, the musician who COM
mitted suicide in the Golconda Hot
Springs hotel some time Sunday night by
taking strychnine.
The longer letter was dated July 18th.
but he evidently committed suicide on the
night of the 9th. He wrote the letters in
the barroom of the hotel Sunday evening.
About $50 o'clock the clerk showed him
his room. In a short time he came back
and asked for some matches. There was
nothing unusual in his appearance to in
dictate that he intended to TAX his life.
He first arrived at the, Golconda hotel
about 5 o'clock on the morning of the
9th, got a room and made inquiries about
the first freight train eastbound. He was
around town during the day.
The Coroner's jury found that he came
to his death by strychnine, taken with
intent to commit suicide.
No valuables were found on his person
and he had only 81 IS in money. Follow
ing are the letters left by McMillan:
"Golconda. New, July %, 1902.
ITO Whom 1t May Concern: No doubt
when this is found and read / will be no
more. ! am not exactly crazy, but j am
determined to put an end to a worthless
renegade. Ever since / was six years of
age l have done nothing but pile one
wrong on top of another. When j was
thirteen years old my father put me in
the reform school at P~lainfield, Ind. I
was there until 1 was eighteen. when l
escaped and came to California. hen l
got in trouble and went up to the Arctic
on a whaler to escape punishment. When
/ got back I went down into Monterey
county, Cal, and served six months, and
was sent from HOLSTER to San Quentin
in '96. / got out in 81 and four months
afterward married in Mariposa county.
Cal. After seventeen months l deserted
my wife and child and went to Ukiah un-
der the name of Blake. I stole a bicycle
and went to Hanford. was arrested there
and sentenced to four months for embeZ-
element I was taken from there back to
Ukiah and sentenced to six months for
the bicycle theft. | did thirty days and
escaped, and went to Crescent City. / got
into trouble there and. had to leave there
a few months later. Then | wandered
down into Placer county, at Ophir, under
the name of r. Selma and left there ow-
ing about $500 and took a cornet and a
violin. Then / went to Klamath Falls.
Oregon, and married. / made many
friends in klamath Falls. | lived with
my wife two months when l had to leave
to evade officers. / had very little money
so appropriated other peoples coin and
a wheel. / have been chased to this
place.
Now I am sure no one will blame me
for taking my w life under these cir
cumstances. / try constantly to reform,
but to no avail. 1t is utterly impossible
for me to avoid these spells, for i am
only a criminal by fits and when / get
those fits / am helpless. / have concluded
to commit one more and quit for always
that is, kill myself. Hoping the victims of
my mania will in a way forgive me, l
will now administer final punishment.
"A. P. MCMILLAN.
"P. S.-Please notify my wife, Mrs.
Edna Mcmillan, klamath Falls, Oregon;
also my father, A. Mcmillan, at Lebanon,
Boone county. Indiana"