Omaha daily bee., 1911-03-21
butcher Oppressed
by His Obligations;
No Trace of Body
Missing Man Worried to Distraction
Over Debts, According to Rels-
tives-Possibly Yet Alive.

So far the body Of Samuel A. butcher.
the young man who was supposed to have
committed suicide BY jumping from the
Union Pacific bridge Saturday night. has
not been recovered and there is a growing
conviction that the former real estate man
may not have made away with himself
after all
Depressed because Of domestic and finan-
cial troubles butcher often spoke Of kill
ing himself and ending Il AL az he wrote in
letter to his wife. A few days ago, while
seated at the table with his roommate, f. B.
Hutchins. 255s Cunning street, butcher
wrote a letter, scaled. stamped and ad-
dressed Il to Hutchins, and then handed
1t over at the table. Hutchlns read the
letter. which stated the intention OF
butcher to end his life. At the time
Hutchins became impatient at the seem
ing levity OF butcher and tossed the letter
aside with an objurEation TO be more SEN
sible butcher evidently refers to this in
cident in the letter that was found on
the Union Pacific bridge after his dieap-
pearance. The letter reads:
Dear old Pal: / told you last night l
was going away and you would not be-
lieve II. I am gone and am never TO be
seen alive again. l shall end everything as
soon as It is dark 30 that no one will try
to stop me. You viii find my poor body
in the river somewhere. KID take any
thing out Of the flat that you want. Good
bye, your chum. Arch"
As far as can be ascertained. the accounts
OF butcher with the firm Of Hastings &
Heyden. for which he worked. are straight.
Financial troubles have considerable to do
with his disappearance was gathered from
the conversation OF his brother-in-law, II.
, D. Twombey, Of go Broadway Council
] Bluffs. According TO Twombley. butcher
/ still owed about $500 OF 800 and that he
was worried over money matters Is borne
out by the letters left for his wife. The
/ letter runs:
Dear Katie: 1t Is all over. have made
all the trouble in this world that I am
going 20 make, I sent a check for S15.26
for insurance due and am enclosing 500,
/ the proceeds OF the sale of the horse and
buggy. Put this in the bank so the check
/ for the insurance will be good and you
and Arch viii get the 5000. Don't let baby
know how 1 met my death and raise him
to be an honest, honorable man"
/ To this letter follows a postscript: Il
! knew this was coming and that Is why 1
wanted you to hate me and give me up.
You can now understand everything.
Please pay all the bills out Of the insur-
ance. The mortgage on household goods
has been paid"
Mrs. butcher has been separated from
her husband for some time. With her little
boy she resides with the family of Mrs.
N. Hoagland $3.50 Fowler avenue. Though
( suffering from the shock of her husbands
disappearance, Mrs. butcher Is not con-
WINGED of her husbands death She thinks
his mind may, perhaps, have become I'm
balanced or that he has sought new fields
where he may make a new start. 1t is
known that he has a brother living in
Oklahoma to whom he may have gone.
The father, Rev. S. A. butcher. arrived
Monday morning. He declined TO discuss
the disappearance Of his son, but remarked
that he was OF the opinion that he had
| taken his life.