OBIT: Arthur L. JACKSON, 1916, Martinsburg, Blair County, PA

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  Arthur L. Jackson, 22 years old, of this place, committed suicide by 
turning on the gas in his room at Philadelphia.  He died in the 
Hahnemann hospital. Jackson was a student at the Jefferson Medical 
college.  He was in the sophomore class.  The suicide was discovered 
when Mrs. Louise Engle which whom he boarded, smelled gas.  With the 
assistance of a boarder, Mrs. Engle broke into the roem [sic].  No 
motive is known for the suicide.  Several photographs were found in the 
room, among them the picture of a pretty girl, lying opposite him on a 
desk. On the back was "Miss Evelyn Heneman, 4142 G Ave."  Other 
pictures showed Jackson in football costume, taken in a team picture. 
Still another was of the young woman and Jackson together.  He was well 
educated, speaking several languages.  He had been in Philadelphia only 
a short time after spending his vacation with home folks.  Among papers 
found in his desk was a letter to Gaby Deslys which read, "Memories of 
those enjoyable times that come into a man's life but are too pleasant 
to dream of being repeated but which I am loath to forget.  To forget 
the past would be to forget one's heart desire."

Martinsburg Herald, March 17, 1916