| Show 1 I flate TO WRITES SUICIDE retired merchant pens farewell notes as he dies by asphyxiation FEARS INSANE ASYLUM man evidently struggled with the letters lettera until completely exhausted describes describe approaching end in phrases of eloquence philadelphia pa il II U Merll hew IL a retired hardware of harre darro pa and until recently an investor in real estate in long beach cal committed suicide by inhaling gas in ills his room in a lodging house lie he left four our remarkable notes written evidently while tile the gas was filling his bia lungs and benumbing his senses the body was found and sent to the morgue the text of the notes and tile the cramped condition of hla his fingers indicate that he struggled wl h the letters until completely exhausted the tone of the notes indicated that ho he was about to be separated from his wife and sent to an insane asylum the notes are addressed to my dear eat cst fannie and lyle supposed to be ills his son two months ago he returned from california after an absence of eight years and voluntarily went to the pennsylvania hospital for the insane fur fir treatment for a nervous disc disease age eloquent and legible tho the note written last Is the ahe most eloquent in a fairly legible hand Is written remember lyle I 1 have not gone drunk on an allusion to a pint bottle of whisky lie ho had consumed but have just taken this whisky to make me sleep then follow sev eral lines of illegible writing followed by my aly muscles are now grow growing I 1 ng numb and then tha 1 he light la Is growing grow I 1 ng dim after another blank space t the he writer hla his strength apparently almost a mo st gone adds my aly last message Is I 1 love you the third note was written after the gas had been flowing from the jet some time it read 1 I now begin to leave leae this world oil oh how I 1 hate bate to a 0 c A writes farewell notes as he dies of asphyxiation go I 1 loved this world and its beauty ilow how beautiful everything hut but the agony of the cell I 1 love my dear helen oh lle be true to her oh could I 1 have lived to see you ou both in a horne home but not so I 1 must go oh why could I 1 have bale not kept my business NO one knows how I 1 I 1 hate to leavo leave this world and my m loved loed ones |
