Lt.-Col, Johnson Had Just Arrived from Manila The third violent death of an American in Shanghai in the Jast few days occurred at about 3 am, on' July 21 when Lieut-Col. Orvitte Int, Johnson, of the Philip: [pine "Army and formerly of the [Islands "Constabulary, apparently leaped to his end from a room on the fourth floor of the Palace Hotel, facing Nanking Road, His unconscious form was discovered by a Chinese constable, who summoned a Fire Brigade ambulance, but he was pronounced dead of various fractures and internal in-Juries "upon arrival at the General Hospital, An investigation was promptly started by the Settlement Police and the American authorities and it was Tearned that Lieut.-Col, Johnson had arrived on July 20 in the s. General Pershing from Manila and that apparently he had been brooding over an alleged serious Injustice done him' in the Islands, Last Letter to Wite He booked the room in the hotel at 7 pam, on July 20 and was last seen "alive by a room-boy there at 11 o'clock. When the room was searched after his death, a note addressed to his wife, still' in the Philippines, was found, Tt read:—"Do not plan meeting me in Shunghal, but settle up your affairs and go home in a leisurely way. 'What has been done to me is beyond belief, but 1 want you to know that. there' was absolutely no justifeation for it, outside of what you already know. This T swear to you upon the most solemn oath, "There is nothing more to be said, "Forgive me for having brought this upon you.
The American Consulate-Gene has communicated with Mrs, w, son and has also notified the War Department at Washington, The body was removed to. the International Funeral Parlours In Kiaochow Road, It-Col, Johnson was born in rural Towa in 1884 and his home in America was at Salem, Oregon, Left in Best of Spirits Manila, July 21, Lieut-Col, Johnson was in the dest of spirits when he left Manila, according to General Basilio Valdes, Deputy Chief-of-Staff of the Philip pine Army. General Valdes. said he knew of no reason why Lieut.-Col, Johnson should have" committed At the time of his death he was on his way to the United States to visit his mother, who is ill. His wife is at present in the Philippines—Reuter.
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