The Washington times., 1919-08-16
ACTORWRITES
EMOTIONS At
DEATH LEAP

NEW YORK. Aug. 16.-charles H.
weston. actor. stage manager and
moving picture director, who SANK
from q position OF wealth and fame
70 poverty in the last ave years, end
ed his life by Ieaping from a window
on the seventeenth door Of the AGO.
+. liam Building.
IL developed from letters in the
mans pocket and from further inVes-
tikation that he had applied TO
theatrical producer last Monday for q
lob as q "strike-breaker" in the act
ors' strike, and had received reply
the following day that no place was
open for him.
Sound on the dead man, however, was
a letter addressed 'to anyone inter
e-sfed. - which contained q justification
Ar his suicide and q description OF
81 feelings on the point Of leaplng.
ASKS Aid for Wife.
ma letter bore the following head
szgv one feels just before death
~ SrmpinE from the eighteenth story
- bITIJdinR-ty Charles II. Weston,
~ before Jumping from the eight
enth door."
BeloW the heading was this sen
~ auy newspaper uses this short
.4nTx. please send my wife, who Is
M O. a. Weston, No. S5z south
eleventh street, Newark n. J"
chsck for SOS. take this advantage
because to die IL q big adventure.
The letter itself said:
STast night I saw my wife ana
a.rIinCs eon the last time en- this
earth. Il is q strange feeling 70
Know that Il Is the last time. Some
thing IN your soul seems to cry. How
wonderful that last kiss isr What
coward feel; sim. know 1 am
not q coward It Is far better 20
die At once than q lingering death
in an insane hospital as know
am crazy.
Had HideOus Dre@s.
II ind myself in the most IN
known places to me. / cannot sleep
without the most hideous dreams. ]
am always talking TO myself. always
doing the most unearthly things.
They will be far better on with
out me. cannot find employment
I am unable to keep them am
dragging them down. cannot i've
and let It be known that ] am the
comes to my mind as I am waiting
10 jump. People are passing far be-
low. / do not want to fall on any
one. am crying like child. Ny
heart and head ache. Yet am not
nervous. I started TO jump q few
seconds ago, but a Vision OF my dear,
dead mother came before me inst as
plain as day.
'Say your last pFayer-She one
gave you years ago 1 am praying
now. pray God to keep my wife,
who Is the finest woman on earth:
my boy, who Is my hearts dream
pray God to keep them from sorrow
and darkness Oh, God! How love
theml Ny dear wife win give any
enc who Is interested the most amas-
ing history OF me that one could
hear.
C1nst Suffer Any Mere.
billions Of thoughts pass through
my brain What will I see in five
minutes2 VIII go TO another
world? VIII my soul rest in peace
Five minutes from now win know
what dying is? I have no fear OF
hell ] cannot suffer any more than
have. Ny body Is in he'll. II am
20 80 to he'll, only my soul can go
but I cannot save my soul
Lee1 just IKE man waiting
90 meet his boss when there is some
thing wrong. Goodby, all May GOD
bless you. II any paper uses this
please send a few dallOrs to my wife
and son"
The police also found in his pocket
q permit from the board OF health &c
use drugs, and a letter from Yves
toms father in Birmingham, England
On q envelope he had written:
This 10 a mans greatest curse" In
Il were q hypodermie syringe and 6
;needle.
Weston left q widow and baby.