Diary of a Suicide

“Mr. B. Russell Herts, c/o International Magazine, New York City.Under separate cover I am sending you a record of a young man who is about to commit suicide. My only object is that it may help...to ease the way for some who come after.... I do not sign this, but you may verify my death by communicating with Mr. --, whom I am writing to-day, so that he may look after my effects in New York.”

The body of a well-dressed young man was found off Manhattan Beach, Sept. 28, 1913. In his pockets a ...