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Show DIED FOR THE WOMAN HE LOViD. Last Tuefjdny night Robert L. Brown of Portland, Oregon, commis sion merchant, obtained from a friend the key to his room at 719 Market street, San Francisco, and permission to sleep there. Yesterday morning Brown was discovered dead in the room. On a table were found a small vial containing strychnine, and a couple of cards, on which there is some writing. These go to show that Brown committed auicide. On one o( the cards is written: "Give this to Frankie. Tell her to wear it na long as she lives, and be good to my darling dar-ling Nellie. Good by. I am going to rest in a better world." The writing on the other card is aa follows: Mr. J. D. Gurretson will you wear this hat aft long as it will last? There are letters let-ters in my valise to show all I wrote this morning." In his valise was found a letter of which the following is a copy: San Francisco, Oct. 2, 1877. Mr. T. M. Brown, Farts, Mo : Darling Parent and Brothers and Sisters: This leaves me alive, but will reach you after I am dead. I will p.o to that better world and wait for you, hoping to meet you all there. I shall take my life. I die for the woman that I love, and can't be with her and can't stand to separate with her. Hoping to meet you in heaven, I die. , Your obedient son and brother, Robert L. Brown. Brown waa born in Paris, Mo., and was but 24 years of age. |