The San Francisco call., 1908-03-30
LAD LEAVES NOTE
PICIURING SUICIDE
81 Came to My Death by Drown.
ing" Says Pathetic Mis-
siye of Despair
Baked Once In Attempt to Die
by Cheering Voice of
Girl Friend

The rosy colored, boyish ambition of
his IL years faded to the hopelessness
OF an old man by sickness from which
he thought himself incurable, Constan-
tino Giaconazzi, a student of the Poly
technic high school of Oakland, left his
epitaph in a farewell message to his
father and is supposed to have thrown
himself from ferry boat into the bay.
The lads father. c. Giaconazzi, a
wealthy rancher and stock raiser of
Soledad, appealed to the local police
yesterday to aid him in finding the
body OF his lost boy. He was con-
WINGED that his son was dead.
In letter dated March Is, which he
received Saturday, Giaccnazzfs son
told him to go to z93 Twenty third
street, Oakland. where he would find q
manuscript giving full reasons for
his contemplated suicide. Giaconazzi
searched high and low over Oakland
and San Francisco yesterday. The most
he could learn was that the boy has
not been seen since March 21.
FINDS SONS WORDS
With another son. Emile, of Elm
hurst, he went to the room at the home
of p c. Williamson and his wife. with
whom Constantine lived, and on q stand
he found the manuscript as he had
been directed. 1t was a strange thing
and giving evidence OF an overtaxed
mind in which the boy declared that
incurable sickness had caused him TO
become despondent and had brought
about his determination to seek death.
The first words the father read were
an epitaph which the boy asked to
have written on his grave. 1t was as
follows:
Rest in peace. In memory Of Con-
stantiEo J. Giaconazzi, born November
words are: God loves all Ny friends
and relations forgive me and may they
lament not over my act. Amen
Il wish that you would prosecute
certain doctors in Oakland who have
taken my money under promises that
they would cure me and have not done
So" the paper continued. There are
several Of them. Worry over i'll health
and financial distress brought il all on.
There is no use going into further de-
tails I came TO my death March %
by drowning in the bay
ITO my moher-It is my wish that
you cheer up and do not lament over
my death. and that you always be
happy. Take good care OF Jennie is my
last wish.
p. S It is my last wish that you
live in perfect harmony.
GIRLS VOICE SAVES HIM
The boy was sent to Oakland il
months ago by his father to go to
school When he was not studying he
worked in the real estate office of the
+. B. & A. L Stone company as a col
lector. In another portion of the letter
he told patheticaliy of a previous at
tempt at suicide when the accident of a
girl friends cheering voice calling him
%or1 .zf<~effaI He ell
thoughts that had taken possession Of
him.
"On the night of January 25,' he
wrote, 'I cried all night long. I de-
cided then and there that I would end
II all I went to the office and closed
the door and locked it. 1 plugged all
the holes and turned on the gas and
sat down and waited. Then the tele-
phone bell rang. At first 1 was not 60
ing to answer It. It proved TO be a
girl friend of mine 1 liked her very
much. She talked to me so cheerfully
that ! seemed to forget my troubles.
She said my voice sounded as if 1 was
worried Then she laughed and I
couldn't keep from laughing. When
she hung up the receiver got up and
turned off the gas and then threw open
the windows After that I went to my
room and had q good nights sleep. I
wonder II il will be like that another
time
I am as sane as any one. expect
10 kill myself by jumping from a ferry
boat bound from Oakland to San Fran
cisco II had lived I would have been
an honor to you all, but as ii is ambi-
tion is OF no use"
Then the letter became incoherent
and the youth went on to make strange
prophecies of the future.
Giaconazzi told the police he believed
that the boys mind became unbalanced
through overstudy and work.