Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-03
FAILING TO GET lob,
KILLS SELF IN PARK
Suicide Had Sought Lucrative
Position Abroad or With
W. K. Vanderbilt.

Unable to get a government position
abroad that would pay him an immense
salary and not having heard from an ap-
plication for the position as secretary to
W. Is. Vanderbilt, Samuel Jennings Muir
ply. twenty-four years old. of Knoxville.
Tenn. early this morning committed sui
eide in the park at 18th and f streets
northwest by shooting himself in the
right temple
Samuel Freeburg. driver Of a bakery
wagon. saw the body resting on the grass
| about ; o'clock and hurried to the first
precinct police station.
II saw man lying on the grass"
gasped the driver as he entered the po-
lice station. and ! think he's dead.
Evidence of Suicide Plain.
Bicycle Policeman Bobo hurried to the
park and found the body not far from
the ellipse south of the White House
Life had been extinct some time and the
bullet hole in his temple and the revolver
alongside the body told the story of his
death.
Letters found OH the body explained
that the young man had been an inmate
of Maryland sanatorium and that dur
ing the past few weeks he had been I'M
der treatment at the city branch of the
Washington Sanatorium, No. Iowa cir
Gle
Under date of March 10 Murphy wrote:
Samuel Jennings Murphy, age twenty
four years upon my last birthday, jan
uary IA, 1913. Born in Eagle Pass. Tex.
upon Rio Grande, de Perorio seas across
that rivers water. My mother, Miss
Linda May Cook, daughter of Abner FL.
IL nt f-A
son of s. J. Murphy Of Mobile, Ala. viii
not give record of my family. There is
something in my life which is super
human. can be explained.
when a boy in New York city on a
visit to my grandmother, Mrs. S. J. Muir
Madison avenue, there was an operation
performed, and"
On another page he had written:
The University Of Tennessee.
Il was power in the first place. There
is proof by your own minds | am not at
fault for what change has taken place
in logic. Albania has had that same trou-
bic, ard the new degree is through the
dead.
Just imagine yourself living with a
dead degree and make him your dead
and take a peculiar characteristic. l am
willing TO blow my brains out for you
and the world"
Advised to Go to Work.
Letters the young man had received
from home contained suggestions that
he had written his parents about his
having tried to get an appointment as
private secretary to w. X. Vanderbilt
and other high-salaried positions and
his father and mother. Mr. and Mrs.
Inge Murphy. had advised him to end
his foolishness and 60 to work.
stop dreaming and go to wori,' was
the advice his mother gave him.
DR.. Margaret Evans. superintendent of
the city branch of the Washington San
atorium, visited the police station early
this morning and saw Capt. Hollinberger
about the suicide. She explained that
Murphy had been in the institution about
two months.
He. had displayed no symptoms of
having been irrational the physician
stated, land yesterday he seemed about
the same as usual. He left the insti-
tuition some time last night
In Murphy's pocket was found an or
der for $50. 1t was written on Will
lard Hotel blank and was made payable
by W. Is. Vanderbilt. Coroner hewitt
examined the body at the morgue and
saw the letter Murphy had written. He
concluded that the young man probably
had contemplated suicide when he wrote
the letter the middle of March.
The coroner gave certificate showing
Murphy had committed suicide. Later
in the day Murphy's father was advised
Of his sons deed and it is expected he
will send for the body.