Deseret Evening News | 1900-05-26 | Page 11 | Suicide of a Catholic Priest

ot or 1 Priest New York 10 May 26 r S J Odonnel Odonnell th the man to whom the photograph left by the priest who suicide at the Whirlpool Rapids last night wal was addressed Is a keeper In the employment of the department of char charIte Ite le lie said laid tha that he had n a telegram from Buffalo stating the cir clr while he ha coUld not say whether I it was 8 his hla brother Father John JohnJ J 3 Odonnel Odonnell who was wal of time the Providence Ut nt Buffalo still the word le lie had received tende tended to confirm or that belet belief lIe He Ind bad he said telegraphed to one of oC the at the for particulars but had not reo re cehe a reply S When questioned a as the sause he said that lie he could oter offer no reason ex except except that hat Imp some yer years ago hil his brother had gone gOM through a severe tu or the grippe and while lie he could not be pus pos t hd had seme seemed to hIm at times time that his hll brother had neVer been Ue the same lamo man since Mr Odonnell refused to give any fur tur further ther Information but at th church ot of the tho Sacred Heart Father Rhodes an assistant tant said laid S From what t I have beard concerning the unfortunate occurrence there thero Ute little doubt that the suicide I Is Father Odonnel Odonnell S S Father further said that some Father gradually years year ago Odonnel became insane from melancholy Ja Fa Jather Father ther he be said was Induced to travel through the South and Europe In the hope or of regaining his h but buth buthe h he received no benefit and Wi was cm corn to the asylum from which he be had probably escape escaped