Show DOG GUARDS B BOF BO BOOE OF OE SELF SLAIN MASTER e Do Disappointed d. d in In Life 1 e A Poor Musician Commits Com Coln mits Suicide r t I ILO LOS LO LOff ANGELES July 22 Ma Ma Enrico Guisseppe Botta the old fr r master ter master who came from the Royal Royat emy of ot Rome and who lovers of off n r rhad had known In Los Angeles for tv tr tv years has bowed his head in d d before poverty and disappoints r The Indomitable will that had spi his ambition through trough three secret and ten failed him His life lifee r with a bullet from a cheap rev revand rev revand and his name name was written on th the of the police department a suicide j The body of ot m the old music ra m now lies In the morgue of J J. D D. Bi Bt waiting for his friends to claim i ii 11 none come forward the coronet coroner order It buried burled In the potters potter's II Beside the body sits on guard S S the tho bulldog who for years vears had hadj the faithful companion of the old si clan When George a student the masters master's room at i Third street he found Spot rat jt tt guarding the dead body of ot the old olds i ter tel terA A simple note on the table told stor story It read It If there are any that care this thi this is addressed to them T I am ending life lite because I am ill II because Ij II If lonesome because I am suffering because there is no h hope pe left in ir The music that to me was the swe ewe thing In all this world brought tomy to t- tomy my greatest suffering It ah alu brought me disappointment I dreg drea of greatness I die in disgrace Gbye G Gbye bj bye e to all J JOn On the back of ot the note la lay great tragedy of the man mans man's s life Fo Fa had written his Ids final message on agram a aj gram of an opera which he had hadn at the e Mason h 0 opera r house hous J year rear Hadj liady was the name of of creation and the libretto had hadl 41 l prepared by a local newspaper m me I But fortune again tricked him 4 him opera opera died The critics said tha the was good but the stage manager was poor That was all that the the master had to soothe the eternal w m at mIn atin In his heart He did not try to toy y v again He moved into a little root the building where Levys Levy's cafe cate use us use be In that same sarno building braiding year jears ear he had on one night played a selection the merrymakers there and one of ot sunny memories was that cheered him they 4 With him he took his dog Si Sr The dog had been his inseparable c c panion since the divorce court iny took his wife away from cooked the meals for himself and dog over a small oil stove In the dc cle cleThe The place was littered alwa alwast sm music and It was the delight o of students to go there for it to them the of old P days I J And It was there that they fo fa him Spot still his companion death as In life stood guard The Th master had spent all but a dollar his money for the gun That last I Ilar lar he left to a Mr Brice who th the J before had befriended him The mo waits walts at the morgue to be claimed Maestro Botto was more 1 years ears of age He was formerly master at the Royal academy of ReHe Ro Re RoHe RoHe He had been a pupil of famous master and the composer r La Giaconda Gioconda compose T Greatness he often complain came to my fellow students to 1 M cagni who vho wrote Ru cana cana and lo o Puccini who wrote Boheme They w were ere m my friends ar always dreamed that greatness yc c come to me But always alWaY there been disappointment there t |