Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-04-08
SECRET OF BIRTH
SPELLS DOOM As
He LEARNS II
In Letter to His Sweetheart
Robert Moore Curses His
Natal Day.
HIS GREAT AMBITION
TO WE'D MISS BERKLY
Actress Now Playing in "Para-
disc of Mah0met" at
New Orleans.

Whether the belated discovery of the
secret of his birth. or the disdain of a
girl he had loved since childhood, or
the fiinty-heartedness of a world which
persistently withheld success, or a
combination Of the three, caused young
Robert Moore to shoot himself through
the head on Eagle Rock in West Or
ange yesterday will perhaps never be
known, as Moore alone could tell. and
Moore is dead.
There is vivid, dramatic evidence
hat motive for suicide was contained
in one or all of these conditions. Since
he left the Home for h Friendless,
where he had been raised. it had been
a lifetime search with Moore to dis
cover the Identity of his parents and
the circumstances of his birth. He
left a letter for the girl he had wooed
for years, had lever won. To the
signature-the name by which the girl
and his friends had known him-was
added another name in parenthesis-
Morril. Moore had told no one he had
discovered such a name.
Cursed Day of Birth.
In his farewell letter he cursed the
day Of his birth. Then, too, after he
had left the regular army, in which he
served four years as a private in the
Philippines, Moore had found he could
not adapt himself to the ways Of a
commercial world. He mad tried one
thing after another, tried hard and al
ways failed. He had confided to his
friends that it was his darling ambition
to succeed that he might marry "The
Girl"
Moore had been living at so Camp
street since January with Mr.. and
Mrs. D. C. Baer. They had always
found him quiet and well behaved.
Baer said that Moore was behind a
week in his board bill and had prom
ised to settle 1t last night. He left the
house in the morning and was not
heard of again until late last night,
when they learned his body had been
identified by friends at Kunz's morgue.
In Orange Moore had been found in an
clubhouse on Eagle Rock Reservation.
He had shot himself in the left temple
with a .32-calibre revolver.
Letter to Miss Berkeley.
In the suicides pocket was found a
letter addressed to Miss Nell Berkeley,
care of Mrs. X. Hale, of East Orange.
Moore had known Miss Berkley-that
is her stage name, and h Is a Newark
girl-since childhood. He had evidently
written under great stress, as some
portions of the letter could not be de-
ciphered. The ineligible fragments
follow:
Eagle Rock. April Z, 1911.
Dear Friend Nell-While you may
look at my affairs in a different mat
ter, you know 1 have my weaknesses.
1 know that l take a course that I
cannot control my passion for you.
. = = My dreams are for you alone.
. = - You have caused a deep i'm
preston in all my past life and
= ~s don't think me the same boy
that 1 was. Ask your brother If 1
have not loved. Curse the day
the evil thereof when this may
find you, but God curse the day l was
born. . . You remember since we
were children you were the n I
wished to make my wife. Farewell;
no more will you look on my body
alive. 1 will go to the rest where there
is at last peace. 1 care not what. 1
am prepared. Yours in the final,
ROBERT MOORE CMORRIL).
Deputy County Physician Herbert
M. simmons, who viewed the remains
and ordered them removed to Kuns's
morgue, in Orange, took charge of the
The body was found by Pa
trolman Frank Mason. of the park po-
(continusa ON second Psge.)