DESPONDENCY IS CAUSE OF SUICIDE W. H. CLARK
Young Farmer Drinks Chloroform in Sixth Street Rooming House.
Continued despondency said to be due to a disagreement with his sweetheart and continued drinking, yesterday caused Walter H. Clark to take his life.
Clark, a farmer, 39 years old, living nine miles south of Topeka, drank chloroform in a room in the Butts building, 116 East Sisth street, at 11 o'clock. He was taken to the home of his sister, Mrs. Nora Sinell, 107 East Sevent street, where he died at 1:30 o'clock. The city pulmotor was used to keep him alive for a time.
Relatives of Clark say that he has threatened suicide several times in the past week. Consequently, he was watched closely. Saturday afternoon he was driving with his father, William Clark, at Sixth and Quincy street, when Walter Clark saw George Baker, a friend, rooming in the Butts building. He asked Baker if he had room for him that night. Clark stayed with Baker. Yesterday morning, Baker and Dan Frye, another roomer, left to eat breakfast, after Clark said he did not want anything to eat. When they returned, Clark appeared seriously sick. An empty chloroform bottle told the story.
Coroner J. H. Rinehart was called to investigate the case. It was said that a weak heart hastened Clark's death.