Show i n e f I PRUSSIC AGID 1 f I DID THE WORK I Suicide of Charles A Ekstrom Ekstromer er ern Vice Consul of Swed Sweden Sw Swen ed i i en at St Louis QUARREL WITH ROOSEVELT i t COMPELLED COMPELLED TO APOLOGIZE TO y j K j 1 REGAIN HIS POSITION t I tot 1 St S1 St Louis Dec 7 Charles A Ek ir irI it st Swedish vice consul in St t k L Lour uh committed suicide by drinking prussic acid at al his home here today Mr I r came into public no noI I tie tl some me ago through a contro contra I 9 N OJa with federal officials which re resulted i r in the revocation of his exe if Quat eur by b President Roosevelt LaterI Later M I I ho 10 was reinstated and resumed his of ot j duties here I Jt H t Is It believed that Ekstromer had hadt hadI t f difficulty with his superiors in the th I F i consular service causing him to taste take t r I hIs hie life fife in a moment of nervous de depression deI I JI t Took Prussic Acid t i ors r Ekstromer can au assign ass nci n no reason for thi suicide Mr Ir Ekstromer was wa w 51 years yearn can old and seemingly in perfect i health So far as aM can be learned he hei i hado had ha jio financial troubles Ekstromer retired tired last night in seeming good spir spirits r 1 its Ita It An hour after he had arisen this i ii i morning his two stepdaughters entered tho library and discovered the body bod Jt It t was as on a couch a note saying saing he ho I hod taken t ken prussic acid neld and the bottle which had ha contained the poison polson being on a table close by It Jt was his cham championing championing championing of the cause of E G Lewis publisher and organizer of the Peo Peoples Peoples ples United States bank that brought down the wrath of ot the president on Ekstromer was at the head of ot a committee of at Lewis L adherents adherents and asked for tor an audience with the president who claimed second class mail mall privileges were being wrong wrongfully wrongfully fully full withheld from Lewis publications publications Snubbed by Roosevelt Ekstromer went to Washington to tofee tofee fee see President Roosevelt early in April 1907 1901 to make a personal plea with him himon himon himon on the matter but he was seas Informed by the presidents private secretary Mr Loeb that the president would not see him cm on that matter and he was advised to put in writing whatever he might desire to lay before the president Ekstromer wrote to the president that he was a Swede of ot noble birth and had his patent of nobility to come cometo to America because he believed this to be a country of ot personal freedom In Sweden he wenton went on to say sa even a peasant might see the king There Therefore Therefore Therefore fore he wrote he considered the pres presidents presidents presIdents action in refusing to see him himas as and aDd unjust This communication brought forth a statement from the White House that letter wn was impertinent uncalled for tor and discourteous President Roosevelt notified the min minister minister ister from Sweden that Ekstromer Ek was persona non grata rata and forthwith as vice vic consul was revoked At the solicitation of oC the Swedish minister Ekstromer later wrote rote an apology to the president and In June 1907 Ekstromer was reinstated as vice consul |