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TIMES. June 17.—J. Howard Moore, 63 year* old. of No. 1365 East Sixty-fourth street, brothcr-ln-law of Attorney Clarence S. Darrow and a teacher in the Crano Technical HlRh School, committed sulcldo to- day by shootin* himself In th© head while on the wooded Island In Jack- son Park. Illness and pain resulting from an abdominal operation nearly Ave years ago caused his act He left a note to his widow, Mr*. Jennlo Mooro. The note follows: 'Tho lone struggle is ended. I must pass away. Qoodby. "Oh. men are so cold and hard and half conscious toward their sufTorlnfr fellows! Nobody under- stands. O my mother! And O my llttlo girl! What will become of you? And tho poor four footed? May tho Ions yeara bs merciful! "Take me to my river. Thtere, whero the wild birds sing and the waters go on and on, alono In my groves forever! "Oh, Te«i. forgive me! Forglvo me, please!" Darrow said Mr. Moore always called '.Mrs. Moore Tess." "He was very fond of 'Teas of the d Urberviiies.' tho Iwvk written by Thomas Hardy," Darrow said,. "Toss was tho heroine of the story and he always called his wlfo by that name." Whero he referred In tho note to! "tike mo to my river, there, where tho wild birds sing and tho waters go on and on, alono In my groves, forever.' ho pictured his orchard nnd other land which he owned In Mo- bile county, near .Earlsvllle, Ala.," Darrow said. Mr. Moore had written a num- ber of books. Ills masterpiece. Darrow said, was the "Universal Kinship," published In Englund In 1906. His other works were: "Better World Philosophy." The New Ethics." 'Tho Whole World Kin." "Tho Law of Biogenesis." and "Tho Llfo of Napoleon." which ho had completed but had not published. Tho Inquest was brief. Darrow told of tho circumstances and the Jury returned a verdict of suicide while temporarily insane. Mrs. Mooro was too grief-stricken to be present. Sho has requested an un- dertaker to have tho body cremated and tho ashes sent to Mobile county, Alabama, to be buried there in Mr.