Harry Stevens, a well-known and respected employe of the Willamette
Pulp & Paper Company, took his own life last night by
hanging from a hinge in the door of a room in the Brunswick Hotel
on Main street. His body was not found until noon today.
Domestic trouble was the cause.
Stevens came to Oregon City about ten years ago and was in the
carpenter shop of the paper mills. He was 53 years old.
Difference over trifles, it is said, caused Stevens to leave home
Saturday and to take a room in the hotel. Yesterday he
purchased chloroform liniment, drank a large amount and then strangled
to death with a strap about his neck. The Coroner's jury
returned a verdict this afternoon in accordance with the facts.
Stevens is survived by a wife and four children by a former marriage---Edmund
Stevens, of Endersly, Or.; Mrs. Miriam Turner,
of The Dalles; Mrs. Robert Adams and Miss Nellie Stevens, of Sellwood. |