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Show CALLS LIFE FAILURE AND TAKES POISON Salt Lake, June 4 For reasons only obscurely hinted at in his farewell messages, Maurice Burke, aged 32 years, a catllo buyer from Sugar Citv, Ida., formerly of Salt Lake, killed himself at the Cullen hotel yestorday morning by swallowing carbolic acid. A woman, financial trouble and a general djscontont with life aro mentioned men-tioned In Burko's last correspondence. "With me dead, It will be hotter for all concerned," ho wroto In a letter to his brother. William Burke of the Burke Commission company at Portland, Port-land, Or. "My life has beon a failure all tho way. Tell them to forget mo. There is no ono to blamo but myself." my-self." Another letter was addressed to Mrs. Chris Armstrong of Pocatello, Ida., whom ho mentions In the first letter as the object of hla love The letter to Mrs. Armstrong, a widow, was not opened by the coroner and will be forwarded to her Inviolate. A maid heard Burke's screams of mortal agony jiiBt after 8 o'clock yesterday yes-terday morning She hurried to the room and found him writhing on the floor . A bottle of carbolic acid lay overturned on tho floor and In his hand Burke held a tablespoon. Dr. F. B. Stoole, house physician, was s-immoned at once, .but his efforts ef-forts were unavailing, Burke dying a few minutes after the physician arrived. ar-rived. He had taken only ono table-spoonful table-spoonful of the poison, On the washstand In th room was found the two scaled letters and an open note addressed to the Cullen hotel ho-tel Tho latter read- "Please mall these two letters without with-out being opened, as they contain nothing but an announcement of what I have done. Write to the Burke commission com-mission company and they will pay my hotol bill, as I can't." Coroner H. S. Harner took charge of tho letters, opening the one to tho dead man's brother It contained the followlngr "Dear Bill and Family I suppose when you read this note you will have heard what has happened to mo. But don't feel had about me. Tell them all to forget me, as my life has been a failure all the wav. .but no one Is ' to blame but myself "You know as well as I do how wqrlhless I havo been. Tell them all to forgic me, for with me dead it will bo better for all concerned." ' A portion of the letter Is given por i to tho vindication of a woman, whom i he does not name, residing at Pocatol- I Io, Idaho, Burke denies that tho wo- I man was at all responsible for his falluro In life, declares that he loved i her truly and that she has given him l much encouragement and financial l aid. According to the coroner, this is Mrs. Armstrong, to whom tho otliej? letter Is addressed. |