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gle or a move. The glass of his watch was
WHY HE KILLED HIMSELF
broken in the fall. His death must have
been instantaneous, as judged by a deep
fold in the neck, formed before the body
was frozen stiff. He laid on a cake of ice
when found. The wine was probably con-
Astrup's Suicide on Norway's
sumed that he might become half senseless,
expecting to freeze to death if the ghot
should fail to kill instantly. Everything
Wild Mountains.
points conclusively to deliberation in carry-
ing out his plan.
FEARFUL OF HIS FUTURE.
LOATHED ROUTINE OF DESK WORK
"There seems to be several reasons for
this hoperul young man's desperate act.
They are, however, vague, as nothing cer-
tain can be said in this respect outside of
Alexander Wept When He Could Con-
his own family. It is known, however, that
he was melancholic, apprehensive, doubting
quer No More-Astrup Took His
of his future, dissatisfied with his position.
His father had planned a mercantile career
Life When Explorations Ceased.
for him, but on taking a trip to the United
States he fell in with Lieutenant Peary,
and went along on his Arctic expedition.
Mail from Norway on Thursday brought
After reaching home he did not know what
news which completely reverses the the-
to undertake, and office work was distaster
ory advanced a short time ago that Mr.
ful to him. He longed for new adventures,
Astrup had frozen to death while crossing
as his mind was bent on nothing else, and
the wild mountains of Dovrefjeld on skis.
he must and would be none but the Arctic
From Troudjems Dagblad the following is
traveler Astrup. There were no chances
for new expeditions, and he would not be
taken:
"It is now conclusively proven by an au-
hemmed in behind an office desk, deprived
topsy on the corpse, and it is no longer a
of the use of his youthful force and energy
secret that Einind Astrup in a fit of melan-
of which he felt himself possessed.
TOO ADVANCED IN THOUGHT.
choly took his own life. The scene sur-
"Furthermore, may be added, that there
rounding his death appears to have been
existed private reasons that probably
that after traveling seven miles he sat
urged him on to self destruction. It is
down alongside his skis, which he had
said that his modern way of thinking was
carefully placed upward on a rock.
not shared by conservative relatives, caus-
DRANK FOR A PURPOSE.
ing deplorable friction and
"From his canister he had taken a sand-
Thus the tragedy,culminated in his going
wich, and this, with half a bottle of port
alone, ostensibly on a skl excursion to the
wine, was his last meal, after which he
mountains, where he sat down in the snow
EIVIND ASTRUP.
placed the gun to his right temple and
and Ice and fired a bullet through his
fired. This concluded by his fall over on
brain."
the left side, where he laid without a (strug-
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