Peter Rademan
PETER RADEMAN, JR. Kills Himself at the Arcade Hotel at Omaha.
Peter Rademan, Jr., who left Manning Monday in company with his wife for their home at Papilion, Nebraska, where Peter has been managing the Papillon Times, shot himself at the Arcade hotel in Omaha sometime Tuesday. It seems he went to the Arcade hotel about 9 o'clock Tuesday morning and went directly to his room. He said that he did not want to be disturbed.
The bell boy reported that he came down stairs once for something which be had forgotten, but no one saw him return. Late in the afternoon the chambermaid went to the room to complete some unfinished work.
There was no response. When she was unable to arouse him on Wednesday morning by knocking at the door, she notified the clerk, and police captain Hays was called to break into the room. He found him stiff and cold in bed, a bullet wound directly over the heart, a revolver in the hand which lay stretched out over the coverlet. He was clad in a night shirt and pair of trousers. In the letter to his wife be said.
"My Dearest Darling wife: When you get this I will probably be dead, An old incurable disease has broken out on me again and both you and I are better off with me dead. I was never worthy of you anyway, so please forget me as soon as you can. The A.O.U.W. will take care of my funeral and you will get that $2000. God knows that was more than I was ever worth alive. Notify G.S. Wescott, Secretary of the Typographical Union, Council Bluffs. I think they owe me a funeral or $60. Darling, I have sinned in this world, and it there is another one I hope to be purified there. Maybe we will meet again in another world. God made me weak perhaps he can make me strong. Forget me, darling, forget me. JACK."
Peter Rademan has been reared since childhood in Manning until three years ago he went to Papilion, where he has been connected with that paper ever since and for more than a year as manager.
He was a very bright intelligent young man, was 26 years old and has been married about one year. He was taken to Papilion for burial. He leaves a wife, father, mother and one brother Michael who is working at the C. & N. W. depot here and a married sister, Mrs. George Ohde, Jr., to mourn his loss. The Monitor joins with the relatives and friends in the deepest sympathy for the bereaved,