The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1910-03-22
BOOZE ROUTE TO
SUICIDES CRAVE
Tragedy at a Waikiki Bathing
Resort Yesterday tr
Afternoon.
SUICIDE IN A BATHHpUSE
Victim of Too Much Liquor
Takes a SWIM and Then
Shoots Himself.
SUICIDE in A BATHHpUSE

Too nervous" to go home, as he put
it, s. Syvertsen, who had for some time
been under police surveillance on ac-
count of his habits of excessive drink
ing, went to the beach yesterday, order
ed some beer and then committed sui
eide by shooting, in the bathhouse of
the Moana Hotel. A friend who brought
the beer Syvertsen had ordered, had to
break down the bathroom door, and
found the unfortunate man dead A
trickle of blood running under the door
had given q INIT of what had occurred,
and revolver lying at the feet of the
dead man told the rest of the sad story.
A friend by the name of Leonard
had been with the suicide up to the
time that the latter had entered the
surf. Then Syvertsen said that he
wanted some beer but Leonard told
Syvertsen he had had enough.
Gwen. / want some when / come
out" said Syvertsen, and Leonard de-
parted for it, while the other entered
the water.
ants told him that something had hap
pened. Leonard laid down the bottles
of beer that he had brought, broke
down the door and saw the dead figure
with bullet hole in the temple.
Some time ago Syvertsen married
but his domestic life was not happy,
and his wife recently appealed to the
police to protect her from his drunken
orgies.
Sheriff Jarrett admonished the man
to keep the peace. Friends of the wife
came to the sheriff and told him that
| Syvertsen had threatened to kill her.
There are at present two revolvers in
the sheriff's Office which Jarrett took
from the hands of the man, and now
third and last one has been added to
the collection.
| Syvertsen continued to go on carou-
sails with choice friends, ending each
one with abuse of his wife and step
children. Finally the police told him
| that he would have to leave the, island
and they sent him out on the Mikahala.
On Hawaii he obtained a position with
| A. A. Wilson, contractor for the Hilo
railroad extension and he had been
there for some time. still drinking, but
leaving his family in peace.
Yesterday afternoon friend Of the
wife, by the name of Bushnell, came
came to the sheriff and told him that
Syvertsen had returned to town and
that Mrs. Syvertsen was getting nerv.
Gus and asking again for the protection
of the police. Bushnell had Just de
livered his message when telephone
call came from the Moana, saying that
man had committed suicide there.
Jarrett told Bushnell that he would
look out for the man, and ordered an
auto, summoned jury and with them
and some newspaper men went to the
scene.
He found that the suicide was the
man whose wife had asked for protec
tion.
, The bullet had entered the right TEN
pie and gone through the forehead, lodg
ing directly behind the skin on thu
right side of the head. The man ha'
fred standing up, and had fallen crum
pied in the corner, the blood fowin;
over his shirt to the floor and dow
in thin stream to the door.
The suicide had said that he was to-
nervous to go home, but would 90 later
When "later' came he decided on an
] other destination, and while his frien
, was bringing him more of that whic
had made his life useless to himself o
his family, he ended his nervousness
once for all.
I One of the exhibits in the case
three bottles of beer, When Leonar
laid them down to break open the doc
: they served as monuments at the fee
of the dead man.
The coroner's jury returned We
' diet last night as follows: "That
Syvertsen came to his death on III
II 2lst day of March, 1910, from sell
;. inflicted gun.shot wound in the hea
IS brought on by dependency" La,
, night S inquest was the first over whic
4, Deputy Rose presided since January 9
s. When Rose searched the man
r. effects Mt the Occidental Hotel yeste
T. day he found photograph of the fan
r. lily on the back of which Syvertsen ha
r. written a note trying to intimate thu
], his family had driven him to suicid