Show A STRAXGEi SUICIDE A dealer in patent medicines committed commit-ted suicide in New York the other day He had been convicted of having counterfeited coun-terfeited the labels of a manufacturing manufactur-ing company and was sentenced to eleven months imprisonment He had long been fighting the big patent medicine medi-cine concerns but at last thy crushed him out Having been convicted by a jury of his countrymen presumably he was guilty as charged He could not bear the idea of his imprisonment imprison-ment and so determined upon suicide He left the following letter which was found when the discovery of his death was made Please make no autopsy he wrote This is an opiate poisoning taken with suicidal intent caused by mental depression de-pression not cowardice The motive is this I am being hounded to death by a corporation with plenty of money They have it all their own way with the judges The reform movement is a great thing Politicians rule everything every-thing There is no justice for a man without money My lawyers left me in a hole I am not taking my life 1 from cowardice but cannot bear the mental strain and the disgrace I have read Robert Ingersolls Is Suicide a Sin and according to that writer my deed is perfectly legitimate and excusable ex-cusable The poison was not given me by any one in the building Innocent or guilty whether suicide is justifiable or not there is a certain I I pathos about the letter No doubt many a man has been hounded to death by a big corporation with plenty of money and no scruple |