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Show QUOTES THE POETS; KILLS HIS FAMILY N'ew York, Aug 22 l eaving for the coroner a letter. In which he apparently ap-parently sought through quotations from philosophers and poets to justify jus-tify the taking of life, Henry W. Lake, chief In a restaurant, murdered his wife and four children and sho himself, dying later In a hospital Lake and his dead were discovered discov-ered lying In their Brooklyn home several days after the crimes were committed The police are not certain cer-tain whether it was Friday or Saturday Satur-day that the tragedy was enacted- "I am tired of living," Lake wrote to the coroner. "My wife is slowly dying, and our four children are small delicate, and sure to get trampled on In the struggle of life It Is best for them to return to unconscious dust with their parents (see Schopenhauer's Schopenhau-er's 'Essav on the Sufferings of the World')." " Lake was found faintly breathing Beside him were a revolver and an automatic magazine gun In a bed with a daughter, Dorothy, aged 12. lay Mrs Lake, who was a sufferer from cancer Fstelle, aged 14, was on i the floor. Walter. 10, and Horace 17. were on the 0001 in another room All had been shot to death. Lake did not regain consciousness after reaching the hospital. In his letter Lake willed Insurance papers, money, and jewelry to a sister, sis-ter, Mrs Rlanche de Mar of Saranac Lake. N, Y . whom he requested to have the bodies cremated A few of the quotations which concluded the letter were: "Death is nature's most admirable, invention " Seneca "There are preachers of death and the earth Is full of those to whom It is necessarv to preach the abandon ment of life " Nitzschke. "Die at the right time 1 praise lo you my deatb which comes to yon because I will. " Nltzchke. |