Omaha daily bee., 1906-06-04

Suicide
Clothing and Letters FOund on River
Bank Near Bridge.

Clothing and Letters FOund on RIVER
Bank Near Bridge.
Letters in the pockets OF a coat found
Sunday afternoon at the east end Of the
Douglas street bridge indicate that Guy
r. Doty. son Of Mr.. and Mrs Charles e.
Doty Of Juniata, Neb. has committed
suicide by drowning in the Missouri river
because OF III health. The coat was dis
covered at 2:9O p m. by d. II. Anderson,
who lives near the end of the bridge, and
with It was a straw hat, pair Of shoes,
collar and necktie. Mr. Anderson imme-
diately took the articles of clothing to
the police station at Council Bluffs.
one Of the letters was addressed to the
Omaha police one to Charles f. Doty,
Juniata. Neb.. and one to Miss Pearl
Humphrey, OF a name similar to that
Lincoln, Neb The letter to the police
read:
Find what is left Of me II you can and
send me home for burial My parents are
Charles and A. M. Doty. Juniata Neb. "
The letter to the parents bids the family
farewell and mentions a reason for the
desire to die. 1t reads:
OMAHA Neb., June 2, 1sO6.-DeaI
father, mother, brothers and sisters:
take this way of taking leave of you.
think il is best as I can never be well
The letter to the Lincoln address was
not opened Stamps had been afixed to
the out-of-town letters, but not to the
one for the police. The man had evil
IDENTIFY believed his clothing would be
taken to Omaha and searched by the po-
lice on that side of the river.
Just when the suicide took place could
not be determined but from the fact that
the clothes were damp and had the ap-
pearance of having laid over night where
found 1t is believed the plunge. il taken
at all, was taken soon after the letters
were written. No one has been found
who remembers having seen anyone who
might be the suicide.
Beside the letters mentioned there were
also a number of letters from the parents
in the pockets, which indicate he was al
the private sanitarium of DR.. b. F. Bailey
at Lincoln as late as in April. Two pho.
tographs, one of a young woman, were
also in the pockets
Detective Weir, who made a search Of the
river bank in the vicinity of where the
clothes were found, was unable to dis
cover any footprints leading to the water
edge. Marks in the sand showed where
the man had Invested himself of his shoes
and from there prints of bare feet led t.
a spot about thirty feet distant, where
the clothes had been placed in a clumI
of bushes and where they were subse
quently found by Anderson.
The lack of footprints leading to thu
water edge leads the police to believe tina
Doty after divesting himself of shoes anC
coat walked back onto the bridge ant
then, IL he went into the water at all
jumped from the bridge into deep water
Word was received by the police las
night from Lincoln that someone from DR.
Bailey's sanitarium would be here toda!
to assist in the search for the body. Doty
1t was learned, was suffering from mean
cholla and had been placed in the SAM
| tarfum at the expense of his cousin, Mis-
Pearl Humphrey, to whom one of the let
| tiers found on him was addressed. A
| least this is what the police gathered from
a talk over the telephone last evening
with person connected with the manage
ment of the Lincoln sanitarium.