The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-11-24
'ELSAS TRIED SUICIDE
ATLANTA MAN WHO MARRIED IN
 MONTGOMERY.
Leaving . Note That He Was Crazy Briderroom shot Himself In
 a Hotel and May

H AIontsomerians were shocked yester- Fl day to learn of the attempt at suicide |l made in Atlanta Wednesday afternoon Il by L.. II. Elsas who Is we'll known
 here.
 Three weeks ago Mir. Elsas married H Miss Adele Stoll Of this city. daugh- H ter of Mrs. H. Stoil. The couple was Il residing in Atlanta when Mir. Elsas Il tried to take his life. The family of I the young bride was informed at an | early hour Wednesday night and Mrs. l StolI left yesterday morning for At- 1 ianta.
 l The Atlanta Journal Of yesterday
 morning gives the following account of ! the attempt which Mir. Elsas made to l end his life;
 Il. H. Elsas. a bridegroom of only n l few days and said to be d nephew Of
 Millionaire j. Elsas of the Fulton Bag
 and Cotton Mills, attempted to take his life in a room at the Jackson Hotel about o'clock Wednesday by shoot- ing himself through tho head. Eisas | fired six shots from 3S-caIsbre Thames Arms Go. pistol. only one of the bullets l taking effect, however, the ball enter l ing his head above the right eye. He l left note to his wife. his mother and
 sisters. saying that he wanted to kill | himself as he was crazy. After shoot l ing himself Elsas was carried to the | Grady Hopital.
 | '"Elsas came to the Jackson Hotel
 about II 80 o'clock Wednesday morn | Ing and asked for room. He regis l tered as L. H. Brown, city He was assigned to room 31, on the fourth floor 1 of the building. He had been in there | only q short while when a pistol shot was heard from the room. Before a | bell boy could reach the room, however. l Elsas came out and went down to the 1 first floor Of the hotel and told Proprf-
 etor Jackson that he had fired re- | volver in his room. but did not mean l any harm by it. Hc apologized for the l disturbance and then returned to his | room a few minutes later. He left the office acting in an orderly manner. In | a few minutes after he had returned to | his room, the bell boy heard five shots | fired in rapid succession In the room 1 Elsas had engaged. He immediately ran to open the door. but found it l locked. Several inmates of the hotel I who had heard the shots looked l through the transom and discovered 1 Essas Tying on the bed in the center | of the room, with pistol beside him, l the blood pouring from wound in his head near his right eye. The door was | broken in, and Elsas was found gasp | Ing for breath. It was at first thought | that the man Ehad killed himself. but | while an examination was being made | of his injuries, the wounded man re- l covered consciousness and begged those | around his bed to let him die as he was crazy" and wanted to kill himself. l He said that his name was l.. Ii El- sas. and not l.. H. Brown, as he had | registered. '"The room presented a disorderIy | scene. Eisas had laid down on the bed | with, his clothes on. He had evidently l lain on his right side, and fired the fvs shots in that position, the last bullet | Nhn Irx s.l tI.. I were badly torn by the balls. while a | mirror In a corner next to the bed had | been badly cracked by one of the shots. | The six bullets which had been fired | by Elsas were scattered around the floor, while the pillows on the bed were dyed red with the blood from his wound where the ball had entered the right side of his head just above the eye. Eisas lost consciousness soon af- ter he had said that his name was El- sas and the people in the room could not arouse him from the stupor. A Grady Hospital ambulance was sum- moned, and the wounded man was ta- ken to the hospital.
 Tt Is not known what caused the de- liberate act of Elsas He had only re- gently returned to Atlanta from his wedding trip, having married in Mont gomery, Ala, short time ago. Two notes were found In his overcoat pock- CT, one addressed 10 HIS WlIe, the other | to his mother and sisters. The last note was written on the inside of an envelope which had on it the letter head of the Equitable Life Insurance ! Co.,, of New York, and addressed to MT. l.. H. Elsas. 301 Whitehall Street. Att | Ianta, Ga.
 'rhe note to his wife was as fol- | lows:
 My Darling Wife and Sweetheart: l am better off dead than alive, and am l always too quick in everything l do. 1 Please forgive me; will find all of my l papers in the tray to my trunk. I am l crazy Lip.
 "The following was the letter to his l mother and sisters:
 "'Dear Mother and Sisters: Please
 bury me next to my father Always
 am too quick in everything do. and
 am better off I. H. E.
 The man had not seemed to be
 drinking and talked perfectly rational
 according to those who had seen him
 enter the hotel and afterward come
 down to the office.'