New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1929-02-11
Suicide WRITES
HIS own EPlTAPH
Inns Of Farewell On New
Hly@ Rod Timetable


de,d for several weeks and lying IN
an out OF the way plaos. seldom
visited by human beings. was the
end Of a pleasant Sunday afternoon
hike by Joseph LaHauskas. II. o.
17s Kelsey street. and Charles broH
Is. of e63 Kelsey street. yesterday.
The boys. az is their frequent
custom, had gone for hike. taxing
the road to Meriden. Their course
took them up the side Of Mount
Lamentation, over a dangerous rath
and near the edge Of a high ciifi
which because OF its danger and al
most inaccessibility, is not often
visited. especially in the winter.
It was almost o'clock, nearly
dusk. Broff wanted to turn about
and 20 home. "Just short distance
further until we get a look over the
cliff and We'll 20 back" said Las
tauskas.
Hardly had he gotten the words
out of his mouth than they found
the body OF a young man lying, face
partly concealed. in a clump OF
weeds and shrubbery. A bottle
which Meriden police say contained
poison, was held in one hand.
The boys did not stop to examine
the corpse but hurried to the near
est farmhouse where they tele'
phoned the Meriden police. Detec'
tiv Sergeant Quinn and Patrolma"
Higgins of the Meriden police join.
ed the boys and we're guided ~ the
spot on the mountain top, where
they found and examined the body
Because of the hazardous climb i
was impossible to remove the body
last night but Meriden police rcmov'
ed it to an undertaking establish
ment this afternoon.
Up to . O'Clock today the identit.
OF the dead man had not been es
tablished. Merden police say h.
appeared to be in his early TWEEN
a well cared for set of teeth and fer.
red hair. An American Express Co
tag showing that suit case ha,
Eeen shipped TO r. Miller or B
Miller either at Wilkes Barre, Pa, o
Williamsburg, the latter town nea
Iittsburg. was found.
Writes Own Epitaph
On q New York. New Haven an
Hartford time table was the follow
ing poem. showing that suicide wa
premeditated:
Say not. the remains should b
divided;
Let the snow fakes be my ~
phodels:
And awaken. Connecticut sprini
leave the body In the JOY q
tho yawning souls nea
knew"
The handwriting. according to tn
Meriden police, was perfect.
The New Britain boys will neve
forget their experience. according
statements to the Herald today. m
son did not sleep all night" said Mr.
Bartin Croft. mother Of Charles. :"
was some shock, I'll never forget II
said Joseph Lastauskaus. when II
terviewed in his fathers grocer
store.
The boys say they did not asceI
tain the contents Of the bottle
poison. Meriden police later learne
ii was chloral hydrate. sometime
known as knockout drops"
The spot where the body WI
found is near the junction Of thre
counties, Hartford. Mddlesex an
New Haven. 80 near the point whel
these counties join was it found thu
police found it necessary to have Ell
gineers climb the mountain top
determine the Jurisdiction. 1t WI
declared to be half a mile With
Middlesex county.
The Meriden police believe II
man committed suicide December 3
basing their decision on the date I
the express tag and the date write
on the poem.
A rumor that the deal man migl
be Burr C. Miller of Wilkes Barr
a student at Yale. was declared III
founded by the New Haven poli'
who say Miller is accounted for.