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Note: THE SUICIDE AT DILLY The Hillsboro Independent has the following particulars of the suicide of young HODGES at Dilley, of which we had announcement by telegraph: Theodore HODGES committed suicide last Monday at 3:00 PM, by shoooting himself through the heart with a revolver. His parents live at Wells Station near Albany in Linn County. He came down to Dilley where his married sister, Mrs. HEWEY [sic] lives, the first of last week and remained there until his death. He had been suffering for two years from epilepsy, was despondent and complained of being ill. He asked Mr. HEWEY [sic] if he thought that anyone who committed suicide could enter the Kingdom of Heaven. On Monday he was very despondent, went to MCLEOD's store and mailed some letters, returned home and wrote for some time. About 3 o'clock he got up and went into an adjoining bedroom and quickly afterward a pistol shot rang out, and Mr. HEWEY [sic] then ran in to him and found him lying on the floor in a dying state. HEWEY [sic] then ran to the store and brought Mr. MCLEOD, and whenthey returned the young man was gasping in death. Coroner BROWN was summoned, who, accompanied by Dr. BAILEY, went up to Dilley and held an inquest on the remains, the jury rendering a verdict in accordance with the above facts. The ball entered the left side about the fifth rib, passed through the heart and lodged in the wall of the back. The property spoken of in the letter we publish below was found on the body. HODGES was only 23 years of age, and a member of the Missionary Baptist Church. It is said that he had been somewhat wild in his youth. Here is the letter he left at his sister's addressed to his parents: Gone To Return No More, may 15, 1882: Dear Father and Mother-you have been good to me and I love you for it. You have done all you could for me, and I have been more trouble to you than all the rest of the family put together. Dear mother, do not weep for me, it will do no good. Dear father, take what is coming to me and pay my debts. I have $122 with me. Take my pistol that will kill me and keep it as long as you live, and when you are done with it, give it to Marcus. Tell him to keep it. Life is a misery to me. I would like to throw some lead in some of them Soap creek boys--learn them to keep their tongues--before I leave. Dear brother Tom, remember me, that I have had more trouble than you. Tom be good to father and mother. They have been good to us. Stand by them. I don't want to cause any more trouble in the family. Some of them talk too much. Tell everybody what ails me. I have had it throwed up to me on Soap creek. I blame no one for this. I have fetched it all on myself. Bob and Em have been good to me as any one could be. I thank them for it. Dear friends, weep not for me. Bury me where you wish. I would rather be buried on Soap creek. Goodbye to all. Theodore E. HODGES SUICIDE IN LINN COUNTY Henry JOHNSON Ends his Life with a Shotgun...His Last Words were, "My Fannie, No Man Ever Died for You." Henry JOHNSON, aged 19 years, committed suicide on Thursday afternoon last at the residence of Mr. O.P. ADAMS, on the banks of the Willamette river in the northern part of Linn county. The deceased was a cousin of young HODGES, who suicided last week at Dilley. He attended the funeral of the latter in Benton county and then returned to Mr. ADAM''s residence, where he made his home. He left a note for his father in which he stated in substance: "No one is to blame for this. My life has been a misery to me. I wish to be buried by side or at the feet of my cousin." On the back of a calling card bearing the name Fannie CREELE he wrote, "My Fannie, no man has ever died for you." It is supposed that immediately after wriiting these notes he proceeded with a gun a short distance from the house to a log, which he placed between him and his gun. Having cut a hole through his vest and his shirt, he held the muzzle of the gun just over his heart and then with the ramrod, pushed the trigger. The discharge caused immediate death, the body falling on one side of the log and the gun on the other. Dr. J.A. DAVIS, the coroner, held an inquest on the remains at which the above facts were eliceted.
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