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Show SUICIDE LEAVES j CORONER LETTER Requesting That Verdict of His Death Be Suicide Due to Despondency; Sap-posed Sap-posed to Live nTrisco. KENOSHA, Wis., Sept. 27. Fred B. Foster, supposed to be from San Francisco, Fran-cisco, committed suicide yesterday by shooting himself. Foster left a letter to the Coroner, in which he asked that the jury summoned to view his remains find'a verdict of suicide due to despond-enej'. despond-enej'. He also asked that the Coroner aecepi his watch as a feefor the trouble trou-ble aid that his remaining trinkets be divided among the Coroner's jury. A letter wns left ad.lrossed to F. B. Stef-fens Stef-fens of San Francisco, in which Foster stated he had determined to commit suicide and had been in hard luck, ever since the earthquake in San Francisco. He left 2 cents in his letter to the Cor- oner to post the letter. . |