Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-01-11 | Page 3 | Suicide Mania Leads Author to Kill Self

SUICIDE MANIA MAMIA AUTHOR TO Kill SElF STROUDSBURG Pa Jan 11 The 11 The body of Dr Albert E E. Hanc Hancock ck aUthor author author au aU- au- au thor and a former member of the Haver Haverford college fa faculty was found near Delaware water gap and by his side was th the revolver with which he had taken his life He disappeared from a hotel in Stroudsburg leaving a note saying he Intended to commit suicide Another note was found In Dr Hancock's Hancocks Hancocks Hancock's Hancocks Hancock's Han Han- cocks cock's pocket which said In the third year of the struggle to regain health the disease de developed developed de- de a mania for self tion A current of suicidal pictures pictures pic pie tures tunes passed incessantly through my mind for more than a a. year Then came a period of seeming re recovery re- re I covery Last September the mania suddenly suddenly sud sud- denly broke out In a more malignant malignant malignant malig malig- nant form and during these last I months It slowly spread into an obsession and gentle yet constant compelling impulse for death I Is ascribed as the cause of Dr Hancocks Hancock's breakdown j