El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-10-30
TWO OLD PEOPLE
DIE TOGETHER
Aged Husband and Wife
Arrange Their Affairs
and End Lives.

Arrange Their Affairs
and End Lives.
CCouunued rrom page II
eraI letters. all carefully written an
stamped with the various addresse
written In a firm hand From ID
tense Of the letters Il is known TIA
they were written after Mrs. wayne
was dead and while the aged man wa
preparing his own end In a letter q
tne coroner. AR Wagner gave com
plete explanation OF the deaths Az
proved that he possessed a low
greater than is the usual possession
Of human beings. The letter reads a.
follows:
IN order TO save you the trouble o
investigating the method and Gauss
OF our death I VIII give you the in
formation you need
TT is a case Of double suicide. viii
potassium cyanide as the remedy en-
plCyed for the purpose I have hac
this poison in my possession 1or sew
eral years. having had occasion TO usi
some OF il in assaying and testing ore:
in mining camps in Arizona KEPT
@ shall quantity in order to use u u
case OF necessity. nv Wife's name Is
Gregoria Chavez Wagner. age s.
wears. Ny name IS Julius Wagner
age - years.
Usually a man who takes his OWL
life Is considered a deserter, a COW
ard In this case that viii not be true
II was getting out Of trouble foI
which there was no other solution.
aFor nearly three years it has
been impossible for me TO earn
anything on account OF having
TO take care OF the wife She ia to-
tally hllndi also crippled. having
q broken Thigh ms the result Of
q fall The break never knit, ll-
h a." r.
Of the bones. In addition 10 these
troubles her general health has
been bad nuTfuE suffered gas
arle and bronchial Illness that
caused severe coughing spells. AT
all hourE Of the day ana night
for which treatment given by
physicians Eure no relief. Her
life has been nothing but suffe.-
ing during all Of that time and
she hns often beEEed me 10 let
her have what would Eive her
lratinE sleep
Il would have placed her in a hos
pltal but for the fact that her condi-
tlcE Is such that she needs more per-
E11sl attention than the hospital en-
ptoyes can give. I placed her in such
rcoE her home again the next day as
she complained Of neglect and III
treatment. Had II been possible to
place Der where she would get the
care she needed at a moderate price
7 could have gone TO the mining
camps 10 earn enough TO keep her.
But after the first attempt to do that
she begged me so earnestly 10 be
SHARED any more experience like It
that 7 resolved TO comply with her
desire TO taFe are Of her tn the end.
when she first became blind and
Seriously III We had some property
thst I have been compelled TO sacri-
flee at such q price as I could get
have reached the end Of my re-
sources and can do nothing more We
have no relations TO be notified, as
our people are all dead
All Debts Are Paid
Z leave no debts. excepting the cur
rent monthly accounts with the public
service corporations They are COW
cred by the deposits which they hold
The rent Of the house is paid 70 the
end Of October I have no property
aside from the furniture. household
goods and personal effects. request
that we be hurried ia such simple
manner that the uroceecs from the
viii cover the cost The county au-
thorities viii have 10 order that at
tended to.
Il have always dreaded living
too long and imposing my In
GirmIries On othersf so ] EnVe no
great regrets at going away while
] am stIu IN possession Of my fac
uities. Hut ] would not do this
now 81 7 could continue 10 take
care Of this poor woman.
The servant mas some articles Of
clothing n the bathroom and in a
closet IN the room adjoining I beg
that she be permitted. 20 take what
there may be Of provisions remaining
In the house. which IS but very little
The house is the property Of 1Ir- Joseph
Rshin. Of SOC Texas street
Had my poor wife died q natural
death. would not have gone as ]
shall now But when she begged SO
earnestly to be given permanent re-
lief for her ills 7 promised TO do so,
and 20 accompany her on the voyage Z
know Of nothing more that I can
add to this.
The patrolmen Immediately sum (
moned police captain W A. Simpson I
and coroner p B. RawIins, who viewed /
the bodies and decided that death was l
due 70 cyanide poisoning. The bodies l
then were removed to the rooms Of I
a local undertaking firm. where they 4
are held pending funeral arrange ]
ments-
Contents Of other Letters.
Other letters found in the room {
were addressed as follows. Joseph I
Rehin. s39 Texas street; Mrs. P J. 4
Martinez. Ills North Kansas street:
Mrs F Il Murphy, wife OF the fore I
man Of the city waterworks.
In his letter TO Mr. Rehin. Mr. /
Wagner explained his act. stating I
that he was sorry he could not get a 1
permanent tenant for the house be-
fore he left it. as he had promised 4
to do
The letter to Mrs Martinez enclosed I
several pictures which had belonged /
10 MS Wagner. II read as follows:
Mrs wagner has been suffering SO
much Of late that she has begged me /
10 let her 60 TO rest AS 7 could not
relieve her in any other way, ] have
allowed her to take what she needed !
ard I am going with her. Goodbye
and best wishes"
To Mrs Murphy the man wrote that
his wife had desired that he send her
certain pictures for which she said
she had once expressed a desire.
Thought He was Doing Right.
And SO, from the letters written by
he dead man. is constructed the pa
hetic picture Of the nights proceed
ass: First. his yielding TO his wife's
pleas tor release from her suffering.
hen the careful manner in which he
prepared her body for the undertake
u.s. then the writing Of the letters.
which show consideration for the
ceilings OF others. even the servant,