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Suicide At The
Hawaiian Hotel
WILLIAM s. HANCOCK, A CONSUMPTION, CIGARETTE
FIEND AND USER OF MORPHINE, MAKES DELIBER-
ATE PREPARATIONS AND SHOT HIMSELF THIS
MORNING.

Consumption cigarettes and morphine combination which
ended in the suicide this morning at the Hawaiian Hotel OF William
Hancock youth Of twenty who arrived here
apparently college graduate Of good family Hely his bed in
held forty-fve in
other and fired bullet through his head Dr. Walters quickly
summoned and arrived time the unfortunate young mans
Hancock plenty good clothing and good jewelry but little
money found among his effects He said
leans. He passenger the Zip the
passengers board taking active getting the daily pools
being always entertaining companion He ncessan
cigarette smoker The twenty cigarettes
room which he finally ended his consmpve suHerng give
mony to his indulgence in the habit to the end Cigarettes all
over the
Hancock was also user Of morphine and this thought to have
contributed his depression He suffered terribly with consumption
and very weakened condition Several days ago he heard
that he had relative in the world There is be-
eve that this was part suicidal plan well thought Out with view
concealmen of his real identity The suicide left nothing to
show where his relatives he had All that exist clues to
his identity are his name his clothing and eWe Inc cum buttons
bear design which appears to be OF the Kappa Epsilon Greek letter
fraternity.
destroyed photographs before shooting
himself He appears have we'll considered the deed but have he
a'e I oS S Do Ii la! @ P",F IR5,i III; Mss w. M
show long dehDeraon Wme New Year celebration were gong
all him. Hancock his bed mirror and pistol hand all
through the morning, and finally o'clock he pulled the trigger
The body presented most ghay appearance as viewed by the
cooner jury the hotel The big bullet had shattered the skull in
several places and the flow OF blood had been copos forming red
pool the bed clothes Hancock was dressed his Paamas Inc
dropped by his side the pistol lay where has had
been fired om and his right hand across his body lie appeared
not to have moved since hrnS the a sn Inc Oue passed
his head acurng the skull both sides and struck the wall
The young suicide lived and acted OF means lie STAYED
Young days after arriving and receped bill
for his expenses among the few documents he lett Another
Celpted bill board at the showed la
his up date All his other documents which might have
identity thought have been destroyed by him
he entered the kitchen of the hotel with the documents in his
placed them the 1t of the final prepara'
follow twelve hours later Han
his and slept there remained there and nothing
of him until he in his last moments this morning.
with wenty-eight cigarette stubs by his bedside
"e conscious after firing the shot said Dr. Walters
when arrived he just alive and no more lie gaSpd once or
twice and that all"
The deceased about the hotel Yesterday by his Ventura
companions whose acquaintance he made while Honolulu
He did not in any depression All who have
Df frplO
es bear out the descriptions Consumption had laid firm hold his
system and he was a the cigarette habit well
morphine though twenty years the opinion OF the
doctor and sudden of suicide rather than live
sufe