The Lonely End of a Railway Cook

A blood-chilling experience was that of a lodger in room 25 at the Exchange hotel last midnight, when he unwittingly entered a death chamber. The light revealed the lifeless form of a man stretched out upon one of the beds. J. E. Frank, the proprietor, recognized the body as that of a stranger who had engaged the room late Friday night. The body was lying straight with the quilts pulled up closely about the neck. On a small table beside the bed was a four-ounce bottle of carbolic acid with the contents half-drained. The vial bore the label of the Pioneer drug store of Everett. An envelope was found in the pocket addressed to Jerry Deselites, affirming his name, though not a line was left to reveal the cause of his act. Parties who knew Deselites slightly say he was a French cook who had worked for the Great Northern railway and that his name was pronounced 'Gillette.' Deselites came up from Everett on the steamer Friday night, and just before leaving that place, he lost over $300 in a gambling game. He was a good-looking man of the brunette type, smooth-faced excepting a small mustache, and about 30 years old. He came to the Coast from Canada about two years ago.