Norwich bulletin., 1912-03-28
Unworthy Wife
 Causes Suicide
PHILIP s. HICHeoRN SHOOTS
 HIMSELF iN HEAD.
WIFE ELOPED IN 1910
Young Lawyer Had Never Recovered His Spirits sinoe-A Son of Ehe Late Rear Admiral Hiohborns

Washington, March 27.-Phiip $. Hichborn, a young lawyer and son of the late Rear Admiral Hich.born, killed himself tonight from despOndency and humiliation over the elopement more than a year ago of his wife, ElenOre Ftoyt Hichborn, with Horace L. Wylie, q prominent Washington attorney, He shot himself in the head with an au- tomatie army revolver and died almost instantly.
 Left a Sealed Note.
 Hichborn went to the home of his sister. Mrs. Paul s. Pearsall, for din ner. The family were out, and shortly after his arrival servants heard shot in his room. The door was broken in and he was found dead. On @ table he had left a sealed note, The coroner 1 took charge of this, and its contents may be made known if the families l consent. 4 person who professed to i have seen the note said that part of its l text was: T am not to blame for thisi | l think have lost my mind" Couple Disappeared in 1910. The first hint that the public had ] that all was not well in the Hichborn 1 family occurred in December, 1910, ! when Mrs. Hichborn and Wylie disap- l peared at the same time. Mrs. Hich- born's family indignantly denied re- 1 ports of an slcpernent and declared , that she was 8 patient in private 1 hospital, having broken down as a, re- l Bult of the death of her father, Henry 1 Nj. Hoyt, former solicitor general o1 ] the United States.
 Hiohborn Sued for Divorce.
 That winter the couple under the ! names of MT, and Mrs. Henry Wise
 were reported as travelling on the Nile
 later in Paris and on the Riviera
 Both families denied persistent &C.,
 counts of their whereabouts, and nc
 veriffcatiou of them was had until las'
 January. when Hichborn sued for di-
 vorca. That action, however, nevei
 came to trial and is now ended by hlt death.
 Hichborns Never Reconciied.
 In April, 1911, Mrs. Hichborn return.
 cd to her mother, and simultaneously Wyiie returned to his family in Wash } ington. He had deserted wife anC
 four children; she had left yea
 old baby boy. It is supposed this at tempt at reconciliation was the resul 1, of a meeting a few weeks earlier II Paris between Mrs. Hichborn and he
 sister. Mrs. Ferdinand Won Stumm ! It was really, however, the outcome o an agreement between Mrs. Hlchporl ? and Wylie that each should TepuTl
 home. and if both found @ reconciiia
 tfon impossible they should accept suol . a realization as q justification for thei e1opement It appeared at first tha the Wylieg had become recon0Ilateo
 but not 50 with the Hichborns. A re
 concillati0n did not take place there tiichborn Never Recovered Spirits - WyLa resigned from the clubs whica
 had not already dropped him and sail
 ed from Boston for Europe. Mr'
 9Ichborn remained with her mother f near Boston, and later sailed for Bu rope. Soon after the couple were sai
 to have been seen in Westm1nste
 Cathedral and later in France. Youn
 Hichborn remained in Washington, eX cept for a short trip to California f whence he returned few days ag' n He never seemed to rise to his forne
 spfrits. He was sGlnown to a host (
 friends as the best type of Youn . man.