Show DOCTOR GRAVIS hs suicidal IDOl celebrated alleged murderer tired of life HE H WAS persecuted TO DEATH so says the doctor in a letter to the coroner dramatic endline to a most sensational case DENVER sept 3 dr T thatcher graves formerly of providence it L I 1 was found dead in ilia his cell at tile county jail about 9 this morning where he was ra awaiting a hearing rehearing re on the charged ch charge argeo of poisoning mrs barnaby a wealthy widow 1 also of providence it was claimed the poisoning was done to cover up dr gravess Gra vese alleged defalcations as in manager an of sirs mrs barnabys Barn abye estate thager the a doctor octor took his own life using morphine I 1 in n a eatchel satchel in his cell were found five letters the first one having been written august ath last showing that his eui sul cide was contemplated since then following is the first letter opened to the coroner of denver colorado DEAR DEAB SIR please do not hold an autopsy the cause of deatti n jay be b rendered as follows died from persecution worn out exhausted yours respectfully agn GRAVES alves M D the last letter is directed to captain crewes jailor of the county jail jai I 1 and is full of bitterness to county attorney J N stevens sevens who secured dr gravess jG CO conviction in th first trial and has been working hard to again have t the ie doctor convicted in the tile second letter which is dated august graves denounced stevens as a liar aua and adds my lawyers have full receipts blowing that I 1 never wro wronged u ged the estate of mrs airs barnaby and that the estate now owes me outside of a legacy by will the tile public what I 1 have to expect from the villainous cowardly falsehood of stevens I 1 cannot expend more money fighting liim him I 1 must take the tile only course to prove it for ma my wife and dear honored lionor cd aged mother notwithstanding the above letter captain crewes in an interview indignantly I 1 denies that dr graves grave committed suicide lie ile says the tile doctor died of a broken heart and to use the captains ivores was murdered by the attorneys attorn n for the state who leave harassed liar assed the old man to death the three other letters were to mrs graves the county commissioners an and d a lengthy one addressed to the public the ones addressed to mrs graves and the tile commissioners have not been given out dr gravess letter to ilia the public Is a long document in which lie reviews the history of the kable ease lie ile denied that lie ever committed the crime with which lie was aluir ed and declared that his prosecution W was accomplished with money and arid political influence in his letter ho lie says the district attorney at that time little was isaac steven stevens a young lending leading ambitious full of devil kil chernes sh ernes and cun cunning I 1 I 1 n a man w who ho never hesitated to do A any ki kind ild 0 of stirly dirty work to advance blin himself self all and av who 10 was surrounded bv by the vilest men in tile wert wet as his tools at the tile trial which followed we found everything completely and absolutely under tinder his counsel reporters re bailiffs court officials except the cleric cleri of the court deputies the tile honorable liono rable judge and jury 81 bince th the trial we e have learned that no man mail was put on all the jury unless he first agreed fl creed to favor stevens Sl ovens promises of political preference and value received were freely offered and taken forty years ago a man named perrin in connecticut and my father fattier had some trouble over some land ilis son worked him himself selfon on to the tho jury a and n d paid the old debt in full after the us usual n al manner wit with li euch such men this we did not know until long after the trial I 1 lam am informed since the trial that soine of the jurors have received political appointments from stevens and some professional jurors are betting on the jury in cases where he al ways case these things are well known n in denver what possible chance d did id a stranger g e r stand n against steve stevens s sla go backed a acke d by such u e h a judeo u d and purchasable sa b ril e jury conrad boasted that he lie i spent among 0 long with witnesses esses detectives judge and J jury ury he re always omitted emitted to remark that the money belonged belo need to his wife and he was play playing irli for a stake the supreme court of colorado in most emphatic sc athine and bitter words pronounced tho the trial unfair unjust and ii illegal I 1 eg a I 1 an and d ordered a new trial my lawyers have found proof that at the trial was paid out to only one wit ness chev have affidavits of numerous men that were sounded as to whether in case of their being summoned on thea the jury ury they would favor stevens and this was as done by stevene stevens the jury were tinder undercharge charge of one of the worst villains on earth he ile boarded at a hotel kept by one of the J went to the theater and around town pretty much as they pleased for months and mouths months I 1 have languished u in biall clamoring for anew a new trial until I 1 have little by little learned all the villainous things which appertained to the former trial and I 1 have told not half stevens in the meantime had advanced to bethe bo tn e acknowledged supreme political boss a and nd controls today the most of the 1 judges d e s they daro dare not decide against him and I 1 0 in y motion for a now trial was deferred a and nd J have been forced to remain in jail all alf through this hot sultry summer until I 1 must confess that my spirit i is s broken down anew A new district attorney has meanwhile been appointed but he lie docs does not count stevens rules the more and the tile new one hobs bobs up serenely as he is ordered agthe as the judge the keople people are indignant but what can thoy thy do 0 with wl th this octopus at the present writing stevens li has as gone east to coach one of tile commissioners and hoodwink tik aini ailin ue ile will return to deliver D en ver with a trunk full of lies after having having properly worked the papers he ile wl win then cajole and deceive the commissioners and probably probably bably induce theli the to furnish him funds Fro to 0 commence again his nefarious prosecution now I 1 am tired of tile whole business they hive exhausted me Is 19 it stran barange e that I 1 think it useless to continue on dinue ofle alie fight now I 1 am tired of it I 1 have freely expended a fortune in fighting them but the courts will coni compel pel me nie to expend more but I 1 dont propose to give them tieni any more what I 1 have left will go to my noble little wife and in mv Y poor suffering mother mot her there is one way I 1 can stop the expenditure allow me roe to repeat that which I 1 have always said publicly and privately ti upon in my y solemn M adonio lason fo 0 oath at h ariva I 1 T ey thatcher J 8 graves raves did not have anything to do in any wa way 0 shape or manner with the death of las mrs barnaby I 1 write this knowing what the future will oon soon have in store for me the people will believe pity and sympathize with me they know that tigh even the man can be beaten down by a cyclone of filth mud and perse cution I 1 1 I 1 leave little ikey slovene stevens to the people of colorado please take care ofila of him T Tu ATCHER GRATIS gravis 31 D HARVARD university mrs dr graves was informed of her husbands death shortly before noon and for a time was almost crazed with brief grief notwithstanding dr grave graves request that hat no autopsy be held I 1 upon his bis bluet body rigid investigation into aven the can cause se ocha of his is death will take place tonight to night dr graves before his death said he be was penniless ciless and thought it no more 11 linn 1 n right that if the corriv county p paid aid the costs of 1 his I prosecution it a should also be willing to appropriate enough to enable him to defend himself the decision of the county to try him hirn again undoubtedly y prompted graves to put into effect his idea ot of suicide which it is plain he had been contemplating for some time |