Show BOTH WERE AWEARY Husband and Wife Suicide at Des Moines Iowa Des Moines Iowa Feb 21J H Hopewell and wife well known restaurant res-taurant keepers of this city formerly of Omaha and Minneapolis committed suicide this morning by taking morphine mor-phine The following note was found in the room just before noon today 1230 this morning We two my wife and I took four grain capsules and about two hours ago took two more They dont seem to have much effect on me Now I am going to shoot myself J H HOPEWELL The woman is still living but will die Hopewell afterwards shot himself They had considerable money but have had financial reverses They were about thirty years of age Mrs Hopewell did not revive till this afternoon and stumbling across her husbands body screamed and gave the alarm Hopewell left a long letter to the press and public in which he discuses the treatment received at the hands of landlords and others in Des a living Moines while struggling to make |