Article from The Weekly Examiner, San Francisco, Thursday, 28 June 1900

SUICIDE AFTER A SPREE

Santa Barbara, June 25 - The suicide of Robert Brierly, a well-to-do farmer of the Lompoc Valley, was discovered yesterday. He had spent Saturday in drinking in Lompoc and had parted with a considerable amount of money. Although a man if wealth, it is thought the loss of this money caused his act., He used a knife to cut his throat. He was fifty-five years of age and had been for twenty-five years a resident of this county.