Show OLD SOLDIER SUICiDES Calvin B Potter Takes a Huge Dose of Morphine DESPONDENCY THE CAUSE i Ho Was Disappointed in Getting a Pension Which Ho Had Been Striving to Get for Twelvo Years Ho Was mi Honorably Discharged Soldier of the Army of the Potomac His Note of Disappointment Failure to Get Pension jSvidcntly Shattered the Old Mans Mind I Despondent over his failure to acquire ac-quire a pension that for twelve years lIe had striven In vain for In a dingy little attic In the rear of the historic clutch where the Hermann murder occurred oc-curred Calvin B Potter who was as he said In his last letter a soldier ofll cer and gentleman took a dose of morphine mor-phine sufficient lo cause the death of a horse and about 2 oclock this morning passed away He left a note In his room that read isic 1 should be called away 1 wonder If anyone would be 50 kind as to express this package to Its address It contains nothing or special value to anyone else Open If you choose and verify this then I wish It could be sent as addressed ad-dressed J wish I could coin my blood Into money to recompense those who have befriended me In the package referred to were some mementoes addressed to Rupert P Potter of St Joseph Mich who IK thought to be a brother of the dead man WAS A SOLDIER Potter had been a soldier in the Army of the Potomac and possessed an honorable discharge lie hud evidently had considerable trouble In his litter years over obtaining the pension and denounced In scathing terms the hate Commissioner Evans Potter had been a member of the State Legislature In Michigan and was a Democrat and ho supposed Evans thwarted his efforts on that account his letters state that through Evans the granting of the petuilon was prevented In one place after a hitter attack upon tile pension ollloc he said I guess there was Insufficient In-sufficient evidence of physical I Incapability Incapa-bility So fall the brave Exit soldier officer and gentleman t lie had been recommended for a pension pen-sion of 10 monthly but never received It apparently ilhe landlady at the place where he had been living said that the other day a little bird Hew Into hm room and struck the old man In the face He remarked jyiati a good sign to me Ill get my fortune now This was the only time she remembered re-membered his acting at all si rang He seems to have been a polished gentleman gentle-man and unusually well educated HIS HISTORY He was fi3 years of age and hjrti been married It Is not known whether he had a wife living or not At present a son Is attending Yale college It Is said For three mouthy he had been living In time house of Mrs Agnes Peterson Peter-son lie had lived In the same house for a period of three years and had been In hard circumstances paying no money for his rental He had an of flee In the D F Walker building wlfcre I he conducted a law business At 10 oclock last night he was heard I walking about In his room In a nervous way by Arthur Peterson ton of the landlady A little while hater hard breathing was heard In his room and V111 Lyon with his brother Roy entered en-tered the room They found Potter lying upon his couch and the t ashen hue of his face alarmed them They at once summoned Dr Mayo hut nothing that the physician could do seemed to relieve the dying man Ho was un on srlous lo the moment of his death only Inarticulate sounds emanating from his throat The body was removed to the undertaking under-taking establishment of S D Evans |