The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-05-02
YOU N 6 TAILOR
 HANGS SELF IN
 EARLY MORNING
Mickey Floridan Commits Suicide in Tailor Shop
 After Dance

Mickey Floridan committed sui- eide early this morning, by hang ing himself in the rear of his tailor shop on Front Street. He still wore in his lapel the red ribbon given him at the door of Wagner's roadhouse where he at tended the Russian picnic a few hours before.
 Friends were unable to under stand why he should take his life.
 Robert Light, who operates his barber shop in the same room as that in which Floridan had his tailor shop, discovered the body of his friend at $40 o'clock this morning when he went to the rear of the shop to get kindling with which to build a fire. Light noti- fled Chief of Police c. J. Davis, who informed the Federal authori- ties of the tragedy.
 Called to the scene, Territorial Health Commissioner H. c. De- Vighne, pronounced the death a suicide due to hanging.
 Shocked by the tragic death of his friend, MT. Light today told of talking to Mickey for an hour or so before he closed his barber shop at 6:3o last night.
 
 In Good Health
 "He was in the best of health and good spirits. I asked him if he were going to the Russian pic- nic and he said he hadn't made up his mind He drove by the picnic scene in the afternoon but didn't stop. When I saw him this morn ing he had the red ribbon in his lapel that was given at the door at Wagner's roadhouse to those at tending the picnic.
 He wasn't worrying about any, thing, as far as I know. There" ]" MT. Light pointed to Floridan's work table, lis the pattern of a suit he cut out yesterday after noon."
 Floridan had gone to the dance last night, according to his friends, and left about midnight.
 According to Dr. DeVighne, he had been dead about six hours when he was found this morning.
 The young tailor had attached a rope to some framework in the shed at the rear of his room, brought the rope over the door, which he closed, placed the rope around his neck, and stepped off the steps that led from the shed down to the room, in order to hang himself.
 There was no evidence of any struggle, Dr. DeVighne remarked.
 Suicide Note
 Please do not investigate this case" Mickey F1oridan asked in a note left on his bed. "There is only one person who will ever know the real cause.
 everything that I have, includ- ing the car, leave to my step dad, Frank Varlen.
 MICKEY"
 Floridan was about s years old, according to MT. Light, and a member of the Moose Lodge. He was born in Minnesota, MT. Light said, lived there for sometime and went back to the "old country with his mother and brother fol- lowing the death of his father The "old country" MT. Light be- lieved to be Serbia and Floridan's mother still resides there.
 With his step father, Frank Var len and brother Carl, he returned to this country and came to AL aska.
 Carl Floridan married a Douglas girl, Dorothy Henderson, daughter of Charlie Anderson. Thought to have tuberculosis he left for the South last fall A few months ago his wife joined him and they are now in South Dakota with relatives of Mrs. Floridan.
 Frank Varlen, step-father of the boys, lives in Douglas and is em- ployed at the Alaska Juneau.
 "Varlan is a fine man." MT. Light said today, land has always been good to the boys. The boys have always been fine boys, too. .''
 There will be an inquest before Commissioner Charles Sey at 10 am. tomorrow.
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