ACTOR ENDS LIFE;
LEAPSJTSTORIES
Charles H. Weston Falls From
Wealth to Poverty in
Few Years.
“I KNOW I AM CRAZY”
Pathetic Farewell Note Shows Heart
Wrung at Leaving Wife and Son
—Describes Feelings Just
Before Death.
New York.—Charles H. Weston, ac
tor, stage manager anil moving pic
ture director, who sank from a posi
tion of wealth and fame to poverty in
the last five years, ended his life by
leaping from a window on the seven
teenth floor of the Aeolian building.
It developed from letters In the
man’s pocket and from further inves
tigation that he had applied to George
M. Cohan for a job as a “strike break
er" in the actors’ strike, and had re
ceived a reply the following day that
no place was open for him. There was
an unmailed letter to Mr. Cohnn, In
his pocket.
The most remarkable document
found on the dead man, however, was
a letter addressed to anyone inter
ested,” which contained a justification
for his suicide and a description of his
feelings on the point of leaping.
Leaves Pathetic Note.
The letter hore the following head
ing:
“How one feels just before death
by jumping from the eighteenth story
of a building—by Charles H. Weston,
just before jumping from tlie eight
eenth floor.”
The letter said:
“Last night I saw my wife and dar
ling son the last time on this earth.
It is a strange feeling to know that
it Is the last time. Something In your
soul seems to cry. ‘How wonderful
that last kiss is!’ What a coward I
feel! Still, I know 1 am not a cow
ard. It Is far betted- to die at once
than a lingering death In an insane
hospital, as I know I am crazy.
“I find myself In the most unknown
places to me. I cannot sleep without
the most hideous dreams.
“They will be far better off with
out me. I cannot litid employment. I
am unable to keep them. I am drag
ging them down. I cannot live and
let It be known that I am the cause
of their downfall. All this comes to
my mind as I am waiting to jump.
People are passing far below. I do
not want to fall on anyone. I am
Leaping From a Window,
crying like h child. My heart and
head ache. Yet L am not nervous. 1
started to jump a few seconds ago,
hut a vision of my dear, dead mother
came before me just as plain as day.
Prays for Family.
“ ‘Say your last prayer—the one I
gave you years ago.’ I am praying
now. I pray God to keep my wife,
who is the finest woman on earth; my
boy, who Is my heart’s dream. I pray
God to keep them from sorrow and
darkness. Oh, God! How I love
them ! My dear wife will give anyone
who Is Interested the most amazing
history of me that one could hear.
“Billions of thoughts pass through
my brain. What will I seie In five
minutes? Will I go to another world?
Will my soul rest In peace? Five min
utes from now will I know what dying
Is? I have no fear of hell. I cannot
suffer any more than I have. My body
Is In hell. If I am to go to hell, only
my soul can go, but I cannot save my
soul.
‘‘I feel just like a man waiting to
meet his boss when there is some
thing wrong. Good-by, all. May God
bless you." *
Juror Drinks Evidence.
Atlanta, Ga.— Henry Henken, a
juror In the trial of Henry Liner, ne
gro, who was charged with violating
the prohibition law, was fined $25 by
Judge Rourke for taking a drink of
some of the "evidence” In the ense.
“!t is nlmost unthinkable that one of
ihe jurors In this case should violate
a law while sitting in judgment on a
man who Is charged with violating
the same law.”
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CHURCH-GOING
1. In this actual world, a church
community, a community where men
have abandoned and scoffed at or ig
nored their religious needs, is a com
munity on the rapid decline.
2. Church work and church attend
ance mean the cultivation of the habit
of feeling some responsibility for oth
ers.
3. There are enough holid<>ys for
most of us. Sundays differ from other
holidays in the fact that there are
fifty-two of them every year. There
fore, on Sundays go to church.
4. Yes, I know all the excuses. I
know that a man can worship his Cre
ator in a grove of trees or by a run
ning brook or in a man's house, just
as well as in the church. But I also
know as a matter of cold fact that the
average man does not thus worship.
5. He will listen to and take part
in reading some beautiful passage
from the Bible. And if he is not
familiar with the Bible, he has suffered
a loss.
0. He will meet and speak to his
neighbors. He will come away feel
ing more kindly to the world, even
toward those excessively foolish young
people who regard church-going as a
soft performance.
7. I advocate a man’s joining in
church work for the sake of showing
his faith by his works.
What Mr. Roosevelt preached he
practiced. The Gospel he loved, we
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