Bisbee daily review., 1907-09-22
Goes From Denver to Les An- geIeS on Deal That Is Perfectly Square
BUT FEARS HE IS CHEATING
Drinks Poisoned Whisky and Is Found Dead By Friends
 Under Tree

LOS ANGELES. Sept 21.-Resting beneath pepper tree on South Pecan street, the body of John Geisel. the well known mining man of Denver, Col, was found yesterday afternoon by boys at play. A note in the cloth ing bottle partly filled with liquid, supposed to be poison diluted with whisky told the story of the mans desperate fear that he would go mad.
 In his room at the Natick a note book was found. The long list of en- tries tells of the day when Geisel first began to realize that his mind was leaving him. Froom time to time jot- ted down among business notes and entries, would come a sentence bear ing out terrible fear of insanity.
 Good God. for the first time today I began to fear that could not con- trol my thoughts" was one of the first entries.
 In another place. totted down in a trembling hand the miner had writ ten: Tt seems man can be off in the head and very few people know it." From his actions among his friends he seemed to be trying to keep his
 secret from them. At times he would be unnaturally cheerful and again he would silently spend hours at a time
 in his room scribbling away on scraps of paper.
 Among mining men throughout Col l orado and Nevada, Geisel was regard
 ed as one of the most honest in the business. Recently he came to CalEl fornid and located claims He want~ ed to sell them to o. T. Holden. ores | 5dnnf eNft ths
 pany. Geisel represented that com pany in California. Holden came to Los Angeles to meet Geisel and confer
 with him regarding the value of the property.
 Just before Geisel came to Los An geles he had been on the desert with his son, Charles, looking over the mining property. While there he suf- fered from sunstroke. His falling mind began to force upon him the idea that he was dishonest, At points m ms diary his sentences were pa tnetic. IL was the fight Of a man who had been honest all his life against what he considered a dis honest thing. He seemed to be hor- rified atthe ide a of being dishon- est.
 One sentence in his diary read: If I made a mistake about those claims don't want to live any more. Why should man bring his friends and even his son Into the God-forsaken desert for nothing"
 At another point he wrote: "If I am fooiing my old friend Holden on those claims, ten" the sentence was not completed
 Mir. Holden stated last night that
 to his knowledge Geisef had never
 been dishonest in his life, and to show that his fear of fooling any one on the claims was absurd the
 miner stated that he had not even
 seen the claims and that at that point | In the transaction such a thing as buncoing anyone would be absurd Another entry in the diary of a re- cent date read: SC Everything is
 boiling and bubbling and I can't think straight" This was written af-
 ter GeisePs arrival in Los Angeles, shortly after his illness on the des- ert.
 The last note in his diary showed
 with what precisioa the man watched I himself. watched his fast-fafling intel | to come. A September entry said: T am sure 2 am going wrong, and will not sflnd for 1t
 l Qeisel was 57 years Of age aza lived at No. 2714 East Thirteenth avenue, Denver. He arrived in Los Angeles, September 15, and registered at the Natick House 4 physician was called | in shortly after his arrival, and found him suffering from mental disorder Wednesday morning Geisel had ar
 ranged to start for the claims with Mir Holden. When Holden called at the
 Natiek early he was told by Geisel that he could not 20 then, and postponed the trip until Thursday morning. At noon Geisei left the hotel An hour later Mrs. J. W Brown Of Pecan street. between Third and Fourth, saw Geisel walking in the rear Of her home.
 He was dressed in khaki and seemed
 searching for place to rest. When
 he reached pepper tree he sat down, | nd rhe woman paid no further at i tention to him.
 When his absence was noted. the
 police were notified, and started a