Show r VETERAN Of I V CIVIL WAR AR CUTS T Aged Man Han WorKing for Board at Local Hospital Hospital Hos fibs pital TaKes Life LEAVES NOTE ASKING ASHING J BURIAL BY SY VETERANS I S Charles M. M CooK CooR Had Been Acting in Strange Manner Manner Man Man- ner for Some Time rime j I With nerveless fingers still clutching a razor the body of or Charles M. M Cook i 67 87 years yean old olet a veteran of the civil war I I I was vas found lying in a a. small room off the tur furnace aco room in the tho basement of or Judge Mercy l hospital this morning The throat was cut in Ul a terrible manner and ck death th must h have vo been almost Cook loft a a. note da dated d February 14 H in which he cays I 1 belong belong to Lincoln post of the Grand Army Anny in good standing in Sn San Francisco Please Inform the Grand Array Army post of Salt Lake Signed GEORGE M. M COOK i Late o of company H II fifteenth Kantas Kan Kan- tas us cavalry V From the contents and the tho date of V th the note it is believed that Cook had hadI I contemplated his death for some time Xo No other letters were found to indicate indi indi- I cate anything thin of the old mans man's causo cause I fo for desiring to end his life lifo Cook ook appeared at Judge Mercy hospital has hos pital a fe few days IH before fore Christmas aud and V V asked askel the mother in charge e of the hospital hospital hoseI hos hose I pital for a n place in winch which ch he be could 1 work vork for his board and antI a 1 place lace to sleep He Ht said that ho was vaS without menus means and arid 1 would ask for no pay other than his I food and a bed beet Th This s was given him aut anti aud hp had bad worked t as an odd job lob and furnace man mun s ince I that time He lie was wasH wasI H a I man of sober arid nud reliable habits and caus caused no one ono the lea least t trouble at nt the tho thoin in institution so io far us UJ Coroner Harry Harn S. S Harper has bas b been en able to learn V Had Act Acted d Strangely Cook Cock liar had for or two weeks been acting In Inan an unusual though tho quiet t manner which while IiI It tt exulted the suspicions of th tho attaches or of the ho hospital had not c ll cd any may alarm lie would never ne sit V wit with his hack hacI lo to a door but hut Invariably faced the door dool as though expecting an 10 V attack or an unwelcome vi visitor sHot This peculiarity u II a was carried cV even n lo to the chapel exercises l cs which ho he attended regularly regu regu- IRrl and ind thou though h the chapel s seats scats ats face race the altar Cool would Mt sit with his 1118 hack back VV to the nun and would face thu door I nc ardless of these Indications of a weakened nc J. J mind mInds no restraints were about him bin Cook attended chapel exercises at al I o'clock last lost night He lie was not seen cen cenI I n during the night and md he was misled this morning Search was as In Instituted for him and his 1115 bod body was found in the ba baseS basement base base- e- e S merit ment of or the V Cook had hl hidden den In a R little room off ort the thc V furnace e room and there with a V had slashed his throat so fa deeply that even en h had d a a a. surgeon eon been heen called Immediately Immedi atel nothing could have Ila been done for him I Before killing Cook had V re removed removed re- re moved his vest t and had folded them carefully ar tull nn and J placed them on a chair Ho Ito then removed his cravat cra and I Inn had placed that on his coat and vest cst Relatives Are Living I Cook was but bul little known al at the hos has pital He lie was uncommunicative and had 1 m made de hut few advances ud o of a n. confidential lIal nature It was wati known that his wife died about twelve t years ago RS-O- and that h lie hs his two sisters sistelS and a a. brother ln living L aJ of thorn thom In Iii California It Is believed that thit his Iris brother Is 15 F. F M. M I. I Cook k of San Francisco cu Cook wrote rote a aV aletter I V letter etter to his brother about two weeks ago ao in which it Il is understood that he told hit his 1 brother that ho he would never nc n ask k him him for fore e nn more mora help hp or ors favors of or an any kind Cook I was as particular that no letters written by bv V f him him should be bo mailed at tho the hospital and i. i asked persons to whom he lie them then to mall mail them In the elt city Coroner Harper J If ic endeavoring a to get J f into communication with Cooks Cook's br brother V in H Sin iii Francisco Ho un has telegraphed S to the San ban V f 1 Grand Army rm camp asking for information and Instructions and 2 asking that organization to aid In int q t tho the s search arch for relatives cs Co Cook k well known o local members o of the tho Grand Gran GrandS Army S Denied at Hospital l. l Attaches of ot t the le Judge Mercy Morcy hospital r denied this morning that a u. suicide had occurred at tho the hospital refusing to give information concerning tho the case and continuing con eon tile the denials aft after r they In Informed tn- tn V formed that thai the tho coroner had given out outI o bo I o Information to the newspapers con- con Cooks Cook death and th the manner In which ho JH hi his lIfe No 0 o Inquest will willbo bo liti h held J |