Hsu Sent Suicide Note Before Disappearance

WSJ ^ | September 12, 2007 | By Ianthe Jeanne Dugan and Kris Hudson

[jdm]

Before Democratic fund-raiser Norman Hsu skipped a court hearing and temporarily vanished last week, he typed out a suicide note and sent copies to several acquaintances and charitable organizations, according to people who received it.

The one-page note, signed by Mr. Hsu, "very explicitly said he intended to commit suicide," said one of the recipients in an account corroborated by others, including law-enforcement officials. Mr. Hsu also apologized for putting anybody "through inconvenience or trouble," the recipient said.

The letter, which began, "To whom it may concern," arrived by FedEx at the addresses of several recipients last Thursday, the day ...

[jdm]

WSJ is subscription only - sorry. More details posted when available.

[Grizzled Bear]

Was the note sent from Hope, Arkansas?

[jdm]

ROTF - good one.

[Man50D]

He tried to commit Hsuicide by taking a train?

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

"Investigators remain puzzled, however, by the potentially relevant fact that Mr. Hsu's suicide note was, in fact, in Sen. Hillary Clinton's [D-Arkancide] handwriting." ;)

[jdm]

You’re killing me here - no pun intended.

[FlingWingFlyer]

...he typed out a suicide note and sent copies to several acquaintances and charitable organizations...

LOL! Funny stuff.

[Shermy]

Hsu will enter Mesa County Jail tonight
Wednesday, September 12, 2007, 05:27 PM

Fugitive Yung Yuen “Norman” Hsu will be transferred to the Mesa County Jail sometime tonight, Mesa County District Attorney Pete Hautzinger confirmed this afternoon.

Hautzinger said he was told today to be prepared to handle Hsu’s bond-setting hearing Thursday.

Hautzinger said he plans to ask for at least $4 million bond for the wealthy businessman. One day before Hsu was arrested in Grand Junction, he skipped a bond hearing in a San Mateo, Calif., courtroom.

“Given that he failed to appear on a $2 million bond, I have to ask the judge to double that at least,” Hautzinger said.

The FBI arrested Hsu on Sept. 6 after he fell ill on an eastbound train passing through Grand Junction.

Once Hsu returns to California, he will face sentencing for a 16-year-old grand theft charge he pleaded “no contest” to in 1992.

Hsu returned to California Aug. 31 to face the grand theft charge but became a fugitive for the second time when he failed to attend the Sept. 5 bond hearing.

http://www.gjsentinel.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/breaking/entries/2007/09/12/hsu_will_enter_mesa_county_jai.html

[NeoCaveman]

That’s not suicide that’s Arkancide

[hole_n_one]

Buckhead.......

font check...

aisle two

[jdm]

Did they trace it to a Kinko's?

TO WHO^M IT M^AY CONCE^RN
HE^LP IM AB^OUT TO B^E ARKA^NSIDE^D

[Publius]

He gets off a chartered plane at Oakland and somehow boards a train at Emeryville miles farther up the line.

He types a suicide note. Did he type it via computer and print it out? Or did he find one of those antique typewriters? Where did he "type" it?

He sends it via FedEx. From Oakland airport? Some other FedEx/Kinko's place in the area? Emeryville?

This doesn't add up to anything but a setup.

[kaehurowing]

Was it typed on the same typewriter as the Vince Foster “suicide note”?

[jdm]

Ah, ya beat me by a minute. It takes time to do those < sup > tags, you know. :O)

[Bender2]

I've managed to translate... and to download it:

[Cementjungle]

He tried to commit Hsuicide by taking a train?

He should have tried the Pasadena freeway.

[jdm]

Thanks very much for that update. I appreciate it.

[mmanager]

This note authorized by Hillary 08.

[Bahbah]

“Given that he failed to appear on a $2 million bond, I have to ask the judge to double that at least,” Hautzinger said.

No, given that he is a runner, you deny him bond. This is ridiculous. And put him on suicide watch. And call in some special interrogators.

[Christian4Bush]

They better have special protection for him...don’t want to end up with Hsuicide by Cop...

[Sal]

Yes, and the note was ripped into 27 pieces (the 28th--the signature--was missing) and found in a briefcase that was empty when previously examined for a note...

Phony handwriting experts confirmed the authenticity of the note, but three highly respected and well-known experts said no way in hell. Obviously the phonies were correct.

[Son House]

Maybe he’s still for a shipment of a suicide vest, the shipping company from the mountains is unreliable.

[Son House]

sqrt(27);
return(3);

[steveo]

well if he planed to dine on Amtrak I believe it...

[Son House]

And call in some special interrogators.

The Bush people? Their too harsh, get the Reid/Pelosi/Clinton folks, Carvelle and Begala they’ve got better smarter ways..

[Judith Anne]

I’m thinking he ran to save his life. And that his life is still in danger, seriously.

[Suzy Quzy]

WHAT A JOKE!! a SUICIDE note from HSU!!! Sent from Ft. March Park maybe???

I want the Rosenman's, the Stephen Schwartzman, Bernard Schwartz, the Paws...especially WINKLE PAW, and HSU INVESTIGATED by the FEDS AND the MEDIA!!! WHERE is the MEDIA besides WSJ???

ALL the people in the Clinton circle are DIRTY!!!!!

[2ndDivisionVet]

Preemptive Arkancide?

[labette]

Don’t joke about this.

It really is series, and hsugh.

[Suzy Quzy]

I’ll bet they found the “suicide” note in his BRIEFACSE ala Vince Foster’s “suicide” note!!!

[Holicheese]

strangley the note said that “Hillary didn’t do anything wrong and that she should keep the $850g’s and that she has gooonnneee too fawrrrrrr!”

[spyone]

No, sent from Ft. Macy Park.

[UglyinLA]

...he typed out a suicide note...

Check the font... was it Times Roman

[mylife]

THE Entire episode is nothing short of “extremely suspicious”

[labette]

LOL!

[Bahbah]

I’m thinking he ran to save his life. And that his life is still in danger, seriously.

I'm pretty sure that's right.

[mylife]

:0)

[popdonnelly]

This guy’s been on the lam for 16 years. Does anyone really believe he was going to commit suicide? I guess he was suddenly filled with remorse.

[jimbo123]

article said there were prescription pills rolling all around the floor of his train cabin.

the amtrak conductor used a crowbar to pry off the door from its hinges to get to him and they found him wedged between his bunk and the floor in a fetal position.

[mware]

Hautzinger said he plans to ask for at least $4 million bond

He skipped out last time, he does not warrent bail this time.

The Feds better get involved real fast.

[BARLF]

Hsu is scheduled for an advisement hearing by video at 1:30 p.m. Thursday from the Mesa County Jail

So Hsu won't make a court appearance. Maybe he will be safe in his spider hole.

[notpoliticallycorewrecked]

THE Entire episode is nothing short of “extremely suspicious”

and hilarious. You people are killing me here, I am laughing so hard that I can hardly breathe.

[princess leah]

Seems to me he’s got 850,000 reasons to live!

[Phsstpok]

and he closed the note

“I’ll see you in Fort Marcy Park.”

[SeaHawkFan]

Anyone checking for finger prints?

[mylife]

I am laughing so hard that I can hardly breathe.

Well take it easy, dont Hsuccumb to it.

[MinuteGal]

Was he glowing in the dark when they took him off the train?

Leni

[Finalapproach29er]

Wasn’t Vince Foster’s note “found” in his briefcase after the Park police had already looked through it?

[G Larry]

Most folks around these parts know the difference between suicide and “Arkancide”.