The Washington times., 1906-02-06
HERBERT {. HANN|S
TAKES LAUDANUh
Found Dead in a Local
Hotel.
DOMESTIC TROUBLES CAUSE
Prominent in West Virginia-On His
Way to Santa
Iium-
DOMESTIC TROUBLES CAUSE

Half an ounce of laudanum was
swallowed by Herbert E Hannts, sixty
years old. while a guest in the Chicago
Hotel, 345 Pennsylvania avenue north
west, last night, and shortly after
o'clock this morning he was found
dead IN bed On the table in the room
he left a piece Of tablet paper on
which he had written:
Notify Mrs. II r. Hannis. Martins
burg, W. Va; William yesterday. OF
Washington. and the Martinsburg
Lodge Of Elks.'
In his vest pocket Policemen Gibson
and Lynch, of the Sixth precinct sta
ton. found a prescription blank from
the ONCE Of DR.. Alonzo Andrews, OF
Martinsburg. which contained the fol-
lowing:
pear Herbert: Your wife says TO
prove TO her that you are ali u n,
and she will then see What can % De
done Would suggest that you go I'M
mediately TO Mt Hope. Hasf5llyt ash llytvsr
A Prosperous Ma1-
The suicide was son of the former
owner of the Hannisville Distillins
| Company, one of the largest firms or
| its kind in this country 1ze is said TO
have been a prosperous man, and was
well known and popular.
! last night about s O'Clock he en-
/ tered the Chicago Hotel and registered
) his correct name and address. He was
shown to a scond floor front room,
and stated that he wanted 10 be call-
! ed ab5ut $3.50 O'Clock this morning lie
/ was heard moving around the room
1 and raising the window, but no one
saw him after he entered his apart
ment and locked the door.
j This morning at $3.50 d bell boy went
to the room There was no response
10 the knock on the door The bell poy
neered over TIE transom and saw .Es
/ man living motionless on the bed ne
! door was forced open and II was dis-
covered that Hannis was dead
Empty Bottle Tells Tale
The window OF the room was up as
high as it could be raised on lhe
ground under the window a policeman
found the empty bottle labeled Laud-
anum." ,,.... o,.a,
the baltimore and Ohio railroad yes
terday afternoon shortly before ' ctoes
land ate his dinner at q hoteI oppo911t ~ y
! the station At a stationery store ne
purchased half a dozen envel2D?5 an ans
{. pencil tablet. on which ne exldeiif II = )
intended writing several lettSIs ~, ~
did not carry out 1 n!s III 49,, fnI1nf
| ever because the stationery "'''7 ~
untouched in his room -. ,7,,,,
II is thought Hannls had oeeh dilllN' III n
! inp heavily during the past ten day
and had some difficulty with his wife
He had a ticket in his pocket Wlilcl itnL
: | -z,ee GOOD to Mt Hope, where sanitar
ium is located. Hannis Ws a rhIeinis sHiaehu' /,
aCfing uDon the advice or the physician
1.SLnse note was found in his pocket
,, The police found a number OF peEsopa in a,
: letters and S27 in cash in the breas
nocIxef of the suicides coat
Certificate of Suicide.
NJ Easterday. who is a local rea
E osrata broker. visited the hotel anC
: viewed the remains. He said he wa!
= NOT personally acquainted with the dea'
man. but knew his relatives in Wes
e Virginia Captain Boardman stated a
2 noon that he would inform the rela
I tives of the suicide. Major Richar'
, O'Brien, a porminent local Elk. com
g municated with his brother lodge mel
= in Martinsburg and also had the bod
D turned over to an undertaken tc be Dre
pared for burial after t::Fe Coroner CAV
- IF death suicide