The Ouachita Telegraph - Capt. J. P. Hamilton Suicide
Submitted by: Lora Peppers  August2001

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The Ouachita Telegraph
Saturday, November 16, 1889
Page 2, Column 1

            Capt. J.P. Hamilton, a former steamboatsman, suicide at New Orleans
on the 12th, by taking morphine and vitroil.  He was not particularly desirous
of an extensive obituary, but left word that in case his friends desired to make
any mention of him to say:  "Died - J.P. Hamilton of St. Louis, aged 52 years.
Through B.L. by the morphine route to hell.  St. Louis and Shreveport, La.,
papers please copy."  Mr. Hamilton's request was gratified but hardly before he
had reached his destination.