Show PSYCHIC CHI C R tEASON E SON SONt t FOR ENDING LIFE Royal H of Salt Lake Commits Suicide 1 4 LEAVES lETTER EXPLAINING I 0 SAYS SAY HE BE INTENDED DEED AS A AS S t to The Herald Heral Jan a letter letter F ing philosophical reasons for tor ending his Ufo life Royal H son o f Dr Joseph or of Salt Lake killed himself by shooting last nIght About n B a m today Proprietor etor Roberts ot of the Hotel Roberts receIved a telephone communication from Dr or of Salt Lake to the effect that he had received a startling letter from his son Royal Roal Hi H stating that the son soo was about to commit suicide at the hO hOtel hotel tel and askIng If this was true Mr lr Roberta commenced to and found the dead body of Mr MUlero In Ina ina a bathtub In the bathroom connected with Ith the room to which Mr Ir had been assigned last night Tile bod body was wag nude and the tub va partially II filled with water A pistol was found In the tub from which a bullet had ben been fired through the heart Mr r RobertS at once with 1 t the he marshals and sher sherIffs sheriffs Iffs oti offices s and City Marshal Henry Sheriff Harmon and others officers and Dr jT F Taylor city physician were soon In the room The dead mans cloth clothIng lag Ing was nea neatly folded on he boo bed and there was every evory indication that Mr MIt 1111 j leron had d In an orderly de determined determined manner to his existence Letter Ietter Tells the Reason BensOn A letter wrItten 10 ii a firm hand was found on the table on whiCh the need dead deadmans mans watch was laid The letter read as follows Jan 2 U II p Whom It Mel Concern I am Royal H of Salt Lake Cit City son ot of Dr Joseph On the night of Friday Frida Dec JO 30 1904 19 I be began begun gun gan a journey for Chicago there tp take the work of a junior In the Rush Medical college How However ver upon rea Proy that night acting on a preconceived plan I quitted the train unknown to anyone My Intentions were to get a room inform my people and friends and put an to t my ex cx exIstence My reasons will be considered 1 insane and ray my sanity doubted b by the ordinary Intelligence This act is Ia not either known or of nor influenced cd by an any I oth other living being except myself I lIly all reasons are almost entirely ethical and have to do wIth myself and rots rela to life Ufe Through scientific study and deduc lion and rather extensive philosophical reading I have unhappily come to believe that all the supernatural is 18 pure fallacy This forces rae me into the posItion or of an unwilling materialIst and robs existence of Its highest attractions Through other Influences developed along similar lines I han ome to regard life UCe as untenable and I 1 be believe believe lieve then human life Ufe to be at th the dle dis disposal or of its owner I choose to stop mine minel minee that l is all The e only remorse I feel feel Is in snapping the ties of love loe which bind me to JIe ta and sisters Fear I do not feel at all It is no part of a philosopher to feel Is Ia for the and If publicity could be avoided in such sucha a cast I should be pleased but as a citi citizen citizen zen or of the world I recognize the Impossibility of the realization of such hopes The of at a coroners jury may not be necessary the case Is plain enough You will find me shot by one or moos mona 44 caliber a near t through rough the vital valve as may be The rho clothes In which I wish to be interred d you wIll find on the bed I di dislike tidiness and n hope O I a not make any t trouble res resl l in this hl line e It would o rJ be just t twell as aswell well not to tell m my people too abruptly as I have written using a special deU deUer er cry stamp to insure promptness This mi might ht be called a case of justi justifiable homicIde I have mereb killed a aman aman man who has been Interfering with m my contentment and piece of mind beyond endurance The man is myself ii I I 1 should write a book I could not offer any more convincing proof to the ther average e person that these few pages s contain r that I m a fool Weli so be It ItI I do not think so 50 myself L Letter Prom From Father The ThO following letter was also found in inthe inthe the dead mans valise Salt Lake Dee Dec Oth lOOt 1001 41 Dear Diar Son ThE ties of consanguInity The near parting partin The PosSibilitY that it may be forever so far as this existence exists admonishes me to SR say lot let bygones be beb b bygones gones Paternal love Jove for you as my myson myson son m my only son and representative has hus never neer for or a moment lleen last sight of Nor do I Intend it shall while I am permitted to serve out the r remaining f few o odas days das allotted the living My Iy heart and hand will wUl respond to your pellet my mya a ability bill t permitting at your can call Ever fath father r J Only in ca cash h was found In his bis clothing and it is not probable he had bad much money when he left Salt Lake Ills His lette Indicates that lie be did not Intend to too togo go o tc Chicago He came to on the as he be states and registered as asU U M H Role Chicago and has had R a TOm room at the Hotel Roberts ever every night since then but had not tak taken n h has s meals there He appeared to be from S 5 to Pi Y years of aan age and was quiet and gentle gentlemanly gentlemanly manly when around the hotel Last night Mr 1 Roberts noticed him sitting in the theoffice office rending as be e went to Md bed and shortly after Mr 11 Roberts thinks he heard beard hint 1 go up P to his room was about S 11 c Ends Life at Night Mr Ir then evidently sat down to the letter and when it was wag corn undressed and entered the bath tub where he fired the fatal shot Mr Roberts whO sleeps under the room did not hear hearIt It and death was no doubt Instantaneous Mr had placed one of Im Is over overshoes shoes sho on the door knob to the bath room probablY to prevent any sound und from us s caping and the door leading from the room to tile hotel was as locked It was decided that there wee wac no n ally for holding an Inquest The remains mains were placed In the custody of oC erg Son and held un till the arrival of Dr r who came down on the tho afternoon train t to take the remains back to dalt Lake WAS STUDENT TUDE OP PHILOSOPHY H Young Man D voted Much Thought ThoughtS S Along This Line LineRo Ro Royal al H was the only son of Dr and Mrs Joseph and was second or of a family of five He was born and reared In Salt Lake City and was graduated from the Salt Lake High I school when he was 19 years or of age Ie was considered a bo boy of exceptional abil ability It ity Since he graduated from the High school he has been workIng hard to help I himself through college and through Ida his own effOrts lie he has been able to attend the Rush Ruah medical college at Chicago for forthe forthe the last three years During his summer vacations he has worked on surveying parties and saved his mone money to take him through the year This year car up to recently he had been unable to go o back to school on 1 account of his limited means and had been despondent With the aid of his parents C he was a able ds NS g ad ada to commence school t this month n and ar arrangements were ere made that he might on tel ter for the rest reet of the turin term Up last Thursday he worked for Frank C Kelsey and Was employed on a urve urvey In Big CottonWood canyon during durinS the summer and fall Friday he bId aU all aUthe the Ute the office goodby ana several cI them n nOtIced that he acted In ina a 8 despondent manner when ho he left He was quiet and ad retiring and made very er row few friends He used to call on Rev T W Pinker Pinkerton ton talk with him considerably on philosophY and science pr Dr PInkerton said last night that he looked upon him hims himas s as a promising young man and that lila his mind must have been affected from over Study sudy When Dr received hIs sons letter telling of hl big In Intentions to kill hI him rn il to the Roberts h hotel otel I f Im ined Yoi morning 4 Page 2 PSYCHIC REASON FOR ENDING liFE d from Page l Dr G Plummer also received a aletter letter ietter from the young oung man and he took It at once to Mrs The rhe letter I was practically th the same game as the one he left jn n stating his reasons for killinG himself Mrs Irs va completely distract ed da when the neWS or her het sons ragic d death reached her and be has been In Ill health fot Cai some time Mrs rs oJ 1 it H Jenkin her eldest daughter isto here but two of her d Misses Mimes Marjorie aid n 1 rqn are In the east at on g The Tho body was to Sst Lake o lute te ast night but no haC i been mu made e for the l |