Show 1 I WILL BE A DEAD MAN A letter aletter lefi left by a suicide that was full brur utica N at dec 19 when J II 11 read a bookkeeper book keeper la in one of the breweries bre werlee opened his mall mail today he found this let letter tr sunday dec 18 dear henry when this reaches yoni yon I will be a dead man in a room at the metropolitan hotel fayette street my eon son Is alck in bed in new york and my wife Is s in absolutely destitute circumstances As a last request ot of an old friend send her 25 so she will get it tuesday her address Is mary west twelfth st I 1 will have to be buried by the authorities as I 1 have not one cent but henry be on hand it if you can and see that I 1 am put away decently goodbye good bye and god bless you your friend signed leroy mr read stepped to the telephone and inquired of the metropolitan it if mr waa was a guest there he ile was told that he vlas then mr read told the clerk to send at once to the room I 1 break in the door and discover ape the ton on of the man the answer was soon received that mr was I 1 dead dea that he be had shot himself ild am was about 62 2 yeara years old |