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Show CHIISTEISEI HAD mm er suicide Loss of Wife ;ind of Money, Too, Probably impending Motives. The dlsaptiearanco of tho money of Pojtor J. C'hrislcusen. who committed sul-clilc;ly sul-clilc;ly taldng morphine. Sunday morning, morn-ing, has been cleared up to a certain extent. ex-tent. ChrJt ens-en. Detective Joseph Hurt learned Monday, cashed the express money order for $47 at '.hi: Koisgnard & lis ' '"lt '1 8 Peter Christcnscn, and Ilia Wife, Wliosc Death Caused Him to Com-mit Com-mit Suicide. Nelson saloon at H2 Commercial strcot. early Saturday evening, -and left $10 with the bnrtender until he should return at closing time, midnlglu. At midnight Christcnscn returned ami got the money, the saloon proprietors say. and went up Commercial street. Christcnscn was drinking some, but was hardly Intoxicated. It Is supposed that he either spent the money on Commercial street or lost It on his way homo. To a frlpnd who was with him Saturday night ho talked of killing himself, and the los3 of the money, part of which he needed to get back to Cripple Creek on. as well as the death of his wife, may have had something to do with his committing suU cide Sunday morning. |