Show A CHRONICLE STORY Suicide of Wi Harlln Said to be Formerly or Sal Le William Martin something over 5 jean of z took a dose of laud MUM today Dec 25 in one of the most notorious diveslnSacramento with suicidal intent The inmates of the place worked with him for some tme when a police officer tvas called iti and had him removed the city receiving hospital where he died shortly afterward From aIn a-In who knew the deceased I was learned that he used to live In Salt Lake City where he ha a wife and six children His family own n farm do near SaUna and are well t Martins troubles In life dated from his marriage His bride vas the daughter o f rffoaincnt Nor mon Elder and after the union the Elder ante Martin to Join the Mormon Church This proposition propion was repulsive nnd the soninlaw rejected it I is said thatllfethcre i after In time bosom of him family was I madeciunnlenflnils the father f I his wife could make It although j hc herself appeared to have always I cherished an affection for her hut t bandIt I band-It was only that i I wa out recently Martin I dropped his hold on his eelf rwpect Last year he followed the Colorado and itonUim racing circuit and a one of his sporting admirers put It hfe played big money all througl Ibx race meetings This must have ruined him financially a well as i shut off remittances of rittnc from home 1 bhortly after the clow of the Shorly aer co men meetings he began to show feigns of losing his grip His clothes b gsa to gradually get rsggtd and hb personal rg being that of 1 prosperous man became moro like that of a regular barroom bummer In one of his pockets When ho wasbreugbtto thu station ita r was a letter from F J Fortraanir 121 Eddy fetreet San Francisco The epistle i dated December 19 1S80 and the writer rebukes Martin for hia ingrrtltude He charged tnt Martin borrowed mon from him and pent it t lewd women lt In dives t lelcr goes on to say that the writer lilted Martin from the gutter only to fee him fall back again Notwithstanding the fact that Martin seems to have been very lit tic at home his wife seems to have cherished nflcction for him ID spite of all the opposition mh Mormon Mor-mon father and a letter from her written In October of this year m hates a lot of current family history and repeats the language of one of w children who was homesick I long wondering why 1 stayed so Theodore one of tho childrenlint died just before trie letter was t5 r1 tel The letter Is plain but a truly wifely letter with the ring of sincerity sin-cerity about It Martin was a soldier and Inrin slier upon his Insist wore a Grand Army dle I is said that he was a member cf a post of the Gram ornsyin San Francisco He has been in Sacramento some months during which time he hums not bee engaged in any kind or labor San francuco Crni |