| Show FROM MONDAYS DAILY MARCH 26 ANOTHER SELF MURDER A E R F willman Will raan of leadville takes morphine last night added one more to the list of suicides that is rapidly lengthening out in this part of the country E F willman a commercial represents a st louis house bouse arrived in the city about ten days age and registered d at the continental he appeared to be attending atten attending din to the bubines in he was engaged until last evening when he was discovered at the hotel in an unconscious state it was soon eon ascertained that he be had bad taken a hypodermic injection of morphine with suicidal intent physicians were summoned but he be was beyond their skill he was taken to the catholic li hospital where he died at 1030 last bight at ahi tn when h placed io in the hospital nothing was said of the cause of his bis condition and when the surgeon dr pinkerton Pin kenon saw him shortly after lie he was dying his papers and other A articles in his bis clothing ivee wee we e taken possession 8 ton of by dr pinkerton till the inquest t could be held which will be at 5 this evening 0 o valuables of any kind were ware found in his bis possession and it is probable financial troubles were one cause ot of the rash deed he lett left the following unfinished letter explaining his bifi conduct at its commencement it is written in a bold free hand band but bat as it goes on shows the effects of the deadly draught on his bis sensibilities and the last Is in a cramped band and growing rather incoherent I 1 am tired of trying to solve the great problem of lifes existence and have taken hypodermic injections of et morphine so that no post mortem or autopsy is necessary 1 I have met su sunshine askine and cloudy friends while sojourning sojo on this green footstool and none of them have been worth the ibe cultivation and I 1 as a last resort will try and see it if the ferryman who his bia aar oar on the dark waters of the river styx will tow a voyager torn with care and misery to the fair shore which nature tells us awaits the weary the only thing that I 1 regret to leave for it is that I 1 have a good wife and little boy of whom I 1 am ii not ot worthy I 1 may be called a coward by the world at large tor for thus taking the gift which an alloise unknown has bestowed upon me but should the casual reader know the heartaches and the hours of absolute despair I 1 have experienced they or he be would at least say well he has solved the problem peace to his bis ashes even it if be en in a paupers haupers pau pers grave I 1 do no not ask it but I 1 would feel deeply grateful graceful should the fraternity of traveling men of whom I 1 have been a confrere give me a decent burial it matters little however what becomes of this mould of clay that has housed such a turbulent while I 1 have seen the trials and tribulations of this world whether it Is consigned to te a vaulted sepulchre or Is thrown to the above care of tae tee birds of the blue arch we have been taugh teach and every one of us at our dear mothers knee that tere is an infinite power above who watches the fall of the sparrow and notes its resting place but it geem seem sto me after due consideration of the subject that it is it a prolonged fairy tale and if there is any hereafter I 1 imagine however foolish it may appear to the casual reader that it cannot contain in all the afons of time as much positive trouble as I 1 have had in the last few years and it there is ie such a it k thing as spiritual spirit nal existence on that other shore and I 1 have any influence with the spirits who dwell in the air it shall be my duty in all after life that I 1 shall enjoy to bless my wife and boy and to keep a roseate tinge on tie the future ol 01 peter of denver and to throw all the shades of perdition upon joseph elsner and one ingersol of shreveport la for those two pernicious and hyp hypocritical critical brutes are the cause of my in life my life has been an exceptionable one when I 1 launched my frail bark upon the sea of this worlds trouble everything seemed auspicious for a lair fair and prosperous voyage the sun seemed to fairly embrace the blithe inhabitants of the sky and as he be 71 on the back of an envelope he had bad written the following please express my valise to mrs B E F willman west fourth street leadville colorado he was about five feet ten inches in bight and apparently thirty years of age |
