The morning journal-courier., 1908-12-02
LEAPS FROM
 WEST ROCK
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(CoutInucd from First Pege) per Last evening When White failed Go appear at breakfast or In his room, morning, Agard decided that something must be wrong and went out to Mr. ]ohnson's home on Whalley avenue at 10 o'clock
 Here Agar found only Mrs Johnson at home, and she said that she had not scon her nephew since Taanksgiy- ing, He waited here until Mr. John son cama home at moon, and the twa with Edgar went to Whites room in Farnham hau
 Letter to Father Found.
 On Whites desk they found lot- tor in his handwriting addressed to his father Joan P. White Walton, N. Y. This letter was dated Saturday, and showed that the writer was un- balanced mentally at the time it was written In it White told his father that he was discouraged and dlssa(is~ fled with his work and was going to take hls life. Thoroughly alarmed at this, Mir. Johnson went to notify the police, while Agard and Edgar start ed out for West Rock, believing that White would go there, if anywhere. Even then they hardly believed he had shielded, but thought some acci- dent had bcfallon him.
 Tn tho meanwhile George Johnson, the cousin. was told of the letter and asked to search around East Rock. He took little stock in tho matter, but after an appointment at 4:20 went out there and hunted until dark. dnd- ing no trace of hls cousin Agard and Edgar searched around tho bottom of the cliff on the south side of West Rock, where SO many accidents have occurred.
 Find Mutilated Body.
 Just as 1t was growing dusk the two came on his body at the foot of the cliff where there is a straight droI of about 15O feet They at once no. thed Coroner Mix, who had the bod, removed to the undertaking rooms of Beccher & Bennett where Medica Examiner Charles ]. Bartlett viewct the remains
 White must have diyod off from tn, .clif, or turned in the air, for he ovl. dcntly landed on his head and rIgh shoulder His face was horribly mu .tilated, tho skull was fractured and tho right arm and shoulder broken. Death or at least unconsclousness leading tt death, was probably instantaneous.
 Whites aunt, Mrs. Johnson wal overcome by the news, which she coult hardly believe, His friends among tn, students were also greatly surprised.
 Father Notified.
 MT Johnson at once telcgraphed {, Whites father, who sent word that h would come on at once Later, how ever he wired for Mr Johnson to ac company the body to Walton. Instea, of his coming here The body win b scnt to Whites home either this after noon or tomorrow morning
 Whites family was prostratcd by th news Four of the family are just rc covering from serious Illness and wcr hardly in condition to receive the news
 Cause of Suicide.
 Why White should have been de spondent Is hard to conjecture Hi work was entirely satisfactory to tn, l faculty who considered him an unusu ally bright student especially for on so young. As he was only %, the strali Of graduate work must have been to much for hls mind to stand althougl he was not sckly at all even if Q slight build
 Lack of money could have ha nothing to do with Whites death. a he had scholarship yielding s4OO 1 year, and his father is in good clrcum l stances and able to give him an ! necessary assistance White had n other troubles so far as is known am was generally of very cheerful dis | position
 As far as his work was concerned he was really doing exceptionally we and would probably have received a appointment next year as instructor | the college He may have been worry ing about the illness in his family q homo, but they were recovering and h did not mention the matter as caustn him uncaslncss
 The peculiar part of the whole matte Is that whenever he was seen by Inf friends he was quite cheerful and n one suspected that there was anythin on his mind. Had he confdod his trou bles to anyone he could probably hay been brought out of his despondor condition on Sunday evening Agar and Edgar saw nothing unusual his actions, although he had alrcad written the letter to his father sayn that he was going to commit sucid, A. F, Connor 'O9 L of G74 West Dyir ity hall and Louis D. Rothensies, TO of 6S5 West Divinity, both from WaIto and close friends of White, had notice nothing Respondent or morosc in h actions and thought him the last ma to kill himself Both spoke of him a being generally very cheerful, althoue not a man who went out a great doa
 out of respect to White. who was { have read paper there last evening the Mathematical club postponed it meeting
 John Alan White was born on Ma ! 3l, 1SSS, at Walton New York. whei his father, John P White, Is editor the Walton Reporter and conducts printing business with an office, in Ne York, White was the eldest of s children. having three brothers ar two sisters