The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-01-24

A FTER waiting in vain for letter
~ from his wife or his daughter
a a Edna, who are now in San Fran
cisco, Thomas Krouse, the well-known
boniface ended his life yesterday
morning by shooting himself twice. He
died about 1880 at the Queens Hos
pital Dependency over family and
financial troubles drove poor Tom to
the desperate deed which has deprived
Honolulu of one of it's most genial citi-
zens.
Failure to receive letter on the
steamship Ventura prompted the faith
er to make good the promise that he
had put down in writing on December
%, when he bade his friends goodbye.
That letter he kept until yesterday
morning, when he added as postscript
in a handwriting which was heavy and
uncertain, Il have been waiting for
letter from my wife, Goodbye. T. E.
Krouse." All morning long he had
paced the three blocks between the Ar
lington hotel on Hotel street and the
postoffice in vain hope that he might
receive word, but none came. AS early
as o'clock Mr.. Krouse went to the
Postoffice, again at s, later at and
the last time he sent the Japanese girl,
kimi, who looks after the rooms, and
upon her return with no news or let
ter, he exclaimed, "All right! All right.
All paul All paul" Shortly afterward,
when the girl had left the room, two
shots rang out, and the respondent
man fell mortally wounded by his own
hand.
Mr.. Krouse made no verbal statement
tn the physicians who attended him. or
to High Sheriff Brown, although prom
Using to do so ''by and by but death
interviewed before Mr.. Krouse did so,
and only a letter to Mrs Frank L.
which he had scrubbed few lines, in
dicated the reason for his act.
At about IL o'clock yesterday fore }
noon inmates of the Arlington hotel.
which is located in the second story of
the building fronting on Hotel street. /
were startled by hearing two pistol re-
ports in quick succession. kimi, the
Japanese servant. OWNED the cause at
once and went posthaste to room l. the
door of which led to Mr.. Krouse's
apartments The door was locked and
she opened it with her passkey. She !
found the parlor and dining room full
of smoke and saw the PROSTATE figure
of Mr.. Krouse lying partially in the
dining room, his head and shoulders in
the little kitchen. She gave the alarm
and a telephone message was sent to
Dr. Meyers.
Dr. Boyle and Mr.. Page. who have
rooms in the hotel. went TO the appar-
emily lifeless body of the suicide. Mr. (;
Krouse was lying partially on his right
side. a pistol close by his right hand. |
lected in cIots upon the Hnoleum floor /!
He was breathing and shortly after
ward recovered consciousness He at
tempted to speak, but owing to blood !
yelling up in his throat he was una
BILE 10 do so. The patrol wagon was !
called for and attended by Dr. Meyers !
and the High Sheriff the wounded man |
was taken to the Queens Hospital |
When DR. C. B. Wood arrived Mr.. |
Krouse had again become unconscious |
and was apparently about to die. The |
doctor examined the body and found |
wound just below the left nipple. The |
bullet evidently had passed close to the
heart. piercing the left lung and lodg- |
ing in the back. No other wound was |
found. Mr.. Krouse was in a state Of |
complete collapse and was quite |
bIanched. There seemed little hope for |
him owing to the loss of blood.
He rallied. however. under the min !
istration of morphia. DR.. Wood then