The San Francisco call., 1904-09-01
BULLET ENDS
BUILDERS LIFE
Mrs. johnson Calls Aloud
for Her Husband, Whose
!. Corpse Is Lying Near By
DEATH COMES QUICKLY
Carpenter Commits Suicide
Because His Venture as
a Contractor Had Failed
DEATH COMES QUICKLY

while his distracted wife and two
anxious friends searched through
Golden Gate Park for him last Tuesday
p night, calling his name wherever the
shrubbery might hide a wounded man.
the dead body Of Arthur Z. johnson
Law stark on the sand glaring with
glazed eycballs at the moonlit sky.
. The sound Of his name from the lips
OF a wife whom he dearly loved had
power no longer TO stir him 10 a re-
sponse, for there was a bullet in his
brain and clutched i'm his right hand
was a glittering revolver with which,
in a ploment Of melancholy, he had
ended his days.
The body vas not found until 8
o'clock yesterday morning. j. g. Gu
cello OF SOS Golden Gate avenue, while
passing along Eleventh avenue be-
tween Z and c streets last Tuesday
evening AT a O'Clock saw in the shrub
berry back Of the Chutes the PROSTATE
form Of a man. Thinking that it was
a drunken tramp Cucello did not stop
10 make an investigation. Yesterday
morning at O'Clock he passed the
same place and saw the same FORM
He approached the object and saw
that il was dead body lying on its
back
DEPUTY Coroner Brown found a re-
volver in the right hand of the corpse.
and was obliged to use considerable
force TO secure the weapon. He found
on the body the following note to
Johnson's wife:
Ny Dear Flo: I am about TO leave you
The strain is more than ] can stand. The
Twelfth avenue Job has killed me Nint care
lessness Hydes frickery and the desertion OF
p beth lett. too much on my shoulders Lack
Or money and the many obstacles IN my way
have taken al the life out OF me- God only
knows what Is TO become OF you It drives
me insane when I think Of II. Good-by 10
the best wife any man ever had. ! mean you.
Flo. Anxious Ter success / have oVertaNed
my strength and am now complete wreck.
Good-by forever ARTHUR JOHNSON,
1881 Ninth avenue
Because of i'll luck as a contractor
and house builder on his own account,
johnson had been respondent for sew
eral DAYS When he failed TO appear
last Tuesday evening for his dinner at
hornz. his wife became alarmed and,
p assisted by two Of Johnson's friends,
proceeded TO search for him in the
shrubbery near that part OF the park
His wife. betw cen sobs and loud lam
EILdLDDnE- cllA 4ErN4 lAAH -ioAAAC O. oA7
most every Step. imploring him for
Gods sake TO come to her, but the
dead ears Of the suicide were past all
hearing, even of the potent voice of
love.
James Vint. who had been Johnsons
. partner I'D TO June 3. called at the
Coroner's Office yesterday and made
statement TO the effect that the note
left. by the suicide had done Nint
.sreat injustice. Johnson, who was 4
good carpenter but poor business
man. g-int said went into business for
himself only few months ago and be
csuce OF his ineptitude as Z manager
lost a little money on some houses he
was building on contract. On June B
Vint and he dissolved partnership be
cause they could not get along to-
% gether The Hyde mentioned in the
note is Ezra w. Hyde. an architect
with sofhces in the Chronicle building.
Vint raid that there was a discrepancy
= OF about so in the bin for millwork on
the. rwelfth-avenue building which
Johnson seemed. 10 take too much to
; heart
Johnson was born in Scotland thirty
nine years ago.