Edward Matlock, From "The San Francisco Examiner" - March 12, 1919:

(Sent by Virginia Zeboski).

Edward Matlock, 50, clerk in the Arcade Hotel, 66 Clay Street, committed suicide Monday night by inhaling gas in his room. He had scribbled three lines on the backs of two envelopes: "I am going. Goodby to all, and send this to Mattie and to Mother. I am through, SO goodbye, Sister Mattie.

A portion of a letter signed "Sister Mattie" was found in one of the envelopes. Matlock had been ill.

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