Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1909-01-08
SUICIDE WROTE
EARLY FAREWELL
Daniel Lambert Asked His Wife to
Forget She Had Ever Known
Her Husband.


Eleven hours before little Gene
We've Bennett crept up to the bedside
of Daniel Lam bert, who was living at
the Bennett home, 20O2 ! street, to
flick away che red baudana handker-
chief and found the sleeper was dead
by his own hand, Lam bert had writ
ten and posted letter to his wife.
1t was his farewell to those he loved.
All he asked was oblivion. "Forget
that you ever knew me-" he pleaded
again and again.
Mrs Lambert living with friends at
Martell Station, needed no informa-
ton that her husband had committed
suicide, when Coroner Gormley mott
fed her tuesday afternoon. She had
received the message first hand. She
asked that the body be sent to her
and the remains we're shipped to-day.
The inquest will be held Monday.
She was not surprised when she
knew that Daniel had committed sui
eide. Ills life she could not fathom.
lie had refused to take her into ais
confidence. His past was a secret,
aud she knew little of his present.
Twenty minutes before Lam bert
wrote his farewell letter to his wife
he had finished friendly game of
cards with Richard Bennett and his
room mate, John Beskeen. He seem
marked this respondent attitude
since the receipt of registered letter
on Christmas Day. He had read the
letter, which was from Reno, then
silently tore it up. No one knows
its contents. But once did he reveal
his heart secret. One evening he told
Beskeen that he would rather be in
hell than alive. Thereafter his lips
we're sealed.
Tuesday morning he rose early and
passed through the house. He then
returned to his bed. The family took
little notice OF the action, as his
loyalty to his couch was we'll known
to them.
About IL o'clock the housewife was
in the room below Lam bert's doing
the weekly wash. She heard several
groans. Two COWS in a nearby lot
made similar noises; and the washing
went on.
Then the little girl passed through
Lam bert's room. She hurried past
the bed and thought the sleeper had
drawn a red bandana handkerchief
over his face.
She thought she would go up and
punch him in the back, for she didn't
like lazy people. she said. She tip
toed towards the bed with an extend
ed finger. Then she saw the handker
chief was a veil of blood. She was
face to face with tragedy. IAN eye
blasted from it's socket froze her with
steady, CLASSY stare. The shattered
mouth dripped streams of gore. The
face was cast in the writings OF
agony, a fitting background. For
lambert had shot himself through
the mouth.
She stared and stared. She was
fascinated by little crease at one
corner of his mouth. Not a word
came to her. Then she screamed, and
her uncle came.
The cody was taken to the morgue
and prepared for shipment. The in
quest will result in finding by the
jury that Lambert died by his own
hand. Friends of the man had told
the coroner that the black bottle was
Lam bert's only companion; the bed
his best friend.
Papers on the suicides body indi-
cate that he was a mem Der of the
t'orester's of America and knights of
the Maccabee lodges. He was a car
penter, employed by the Pacific Fruit
Express. Sac. Bee.
Deceased g wife was formerly resi-
dent of Amador county. The funeral
took place in the cemetaIy of that
town on Tuesday last Ed. Ledger.