THE ROME INCIDENT, PART 2.


REFERENCES TO THE ROME "SUICIDE" NOTE.
1....When he returned the note from Rome to her, Courtney claims Sgt. Cameron  told her, "This will never do you any good.  I'd get rid of it if I were you." So.....she burned it. (Tom Grant, Grant website.) 

2...."Love gave us another note which she said Kurt had written in Rome.  She  said it was a suicide note, but it wasn't.  It was a rambling letter which  was very unflattering to her.  There are some veiled references which you'd  have to stretch to conclude referred to suicide."  (Un-named Police Officer,  Seattle Police, WKKC?, p.123-124.) 

3...."It was on hotel stationary, and he's talking about how I'm not in love  with him anymore...and he knows how much I love him...and that like Hamlet,  he had to choose between life and death, and he said he was choosing death."   Courtney's description of the Rome note, Spin Magazine.) 

KURT'S DRUG USE.  Courtney has used every opportunity to highlight that Kurt was suicidal and  using drugs heavily in the days prior to and after Rome. (She has un-named sources to support her claims!.) Rossi repeatedly accentuated the use of heroin, and makes no reference to any  possible habitual use, by Kurt, of Rohypnol.  The only mention of Rohypnol  with regards to Kurt, is at the time of Rome.  There are witnesses to the fact that Kurt was clean during the tour,  Melody Maker, April 16 1994;  Buzzcocks supported Nirvana in Jan, Feb 1994.  Bassist Tony Barber told the  Maker,  "I know he was not taking drugs on that tour.  He was walking around  drinking Evian water and looking clean every time I saw him.  He didn't seem  to consider himself a star...He seemed like a shy bloke who didn't have many  friends.  Often when I was talking to him, I felt like saying, "Look, if you  need a mate just to go for a drink with or anything, I'm here."  And then I  came home last night and saw it on the news.  I couldn't believe it.  It's  just so sad."  Pete Shelley, vocalist and guitarist, "He seemed really clean when we were on  tour.  In some ways it was a bit awkward because he wasn't really joining in  the very mild debauchery that went on." ( Melody Maker, April 16 1994.)  The overdose in Rome was attributed to a combination of champagne and  Rohypnol.  There has never been any inclusion of heroin in this combination,  which implies that no heroin was found in Kurt's system.  This supports  Barber and Shelley's claims that Kurt was clean. It would also explain why Kurt denied he had a drug problem when he was faced  with the intervention, and Steve Chatoff's statement, "He was in full  denial," (Cobain by the editors of Rolling Stone, p.82.)   He felt like he had no habit,"  (Dylan Carlson, talking about the  intervention attempts after Rome, Sandford, p.324.)  Chapter 18 of Brite's book, published 1997, begins thus,  Conversation overheard on a flight from Rome to Seattle, March 12, 1994: "Give me a Rohypnol." "They're gone." A silence.  Five minutes later: "C'mon, give me a Rohypnol." "Thy're gone Kurt.  They are gone.  I dumped them all down the fuckin toilet.   It's over." "Fuck you, you lying bitch, give me a Rohypnol...Please."  This is a new progression.  Again, no name for the person who overheard this  conversation.  It wasn't mentioned in Rossi's book, published 1996.   Courtney has had a few months to elaborate on her stories, before the "New  and Improved" version makes its debut, courtesy of Poppy Brite.   The above un-named source, who heard this conversation is an attempt to  address the previously lacking references with regards to Kurt being a  familiar user of Rohypnol, it also introduces the notion that Kurt was now  using Klonopin, heroin and speed, (might as well go the whole gamut,  Courtney, cover all possibilities. Kurt's not here to defend himself.) There are witnesses to support the fact that Courtney was popping pills, and  was familiar with the method of mixing them with champagne/drink, both before  and after Rome, see the previously mentioned Everett True quote, and Poppy  Brite book, p.168, where she reports that Courtney considered administering  Valium to Kurt, secretly in a drink, because after his return from Rome, he  was so manic, she wanted him to rest.   Are you getting confused again, Courtney?.  You obviously thought of this at  some point.  Anyway, it contradicts Kurt's internet posting, where he seems  perfectly aware he needs rest.  I think he could cope without your  intervention.  On March 22nd, at Kurt's insistence, they returned the Lexus Courtney had  bought. Kurt was trying to assert control, getting rid of things he didn't want.  He  seemed quite capable of this, and it caused Courtney to panic, behave in an  unstable manner.  As he took control, she lost it.  Kurt was not the unstable, incapable wreck that un-named sources would have  us believe.  "Courtney was popping pills, she had to use the bathroom and she dropped a  handful of pills and had to pick them up,"  (Joe Kenney, car salesman,  talking of the return of the Lexus, WKKC?, p.90.) Also see Sandford, p.320, where Kenney described Love as unstable. In WKKC?, Kenney remarked that neither Kurt nor Courtney looked like they  would be around much longer, because they were so strung out on drugs.   Kenney didn't actually mention that he saw Kurt taking any pills though. Kurt had been ill enough to cancel the tour he was on, he had just survived a  serious coma. 

His physical appearance could be down to the fact he was  ill/recovering. Because Kurt was clean to other witnesses, and because he denied he had a  drug problem at the intervention attempts, I would give Kurt the benefit of  the doubt, and assume that that is why he looked rough to Kenney.   No heroin was found in his system in Rome.  Witnesses exist to the fact Kurt  was clean, and above all this Kurt denied he had a drug problem.  Therefor  Kurt could not, at this time, be classified as a heavy drug user who had a  high tolerance for heroin.  This is important.  When Kurt died, he had 1.52 milligrams of morphine per litre of blood in his  system.  This is about 2.5/3 times the lethal dose . Two doctors attended Lke Wash Blvd on April 8th.  Dr. Donald Reay, and Dr.  Nicholas Hartshorne.  Hartshorne was an old friend of Courtney's  It was  Hartshornes'  verdict of suicide that made Kurt a victim for the second time,  firstly of murder, then of the incompetence of the presiding doctors. Dr Reay has since justified the verdict by saying that a severe heroin addict  has a higher tolerance, and that the level of morphine present in Kurt would  not exclude him from being able to pull the trigger, due to the fact he was a  severe heroin addict. Kurt was clean.  So once again the Seattle Police and Medical Examiners prove  that shabby incompetence and lack of investigative techniques do not exclude  acceptance into their realms.  Just accept evidence provided by the most  likely suspect of any given crime.  Case solved. How glaringly obvious do the incongruities need to be, before this case is  taken seriously?.  Before the likes of Caitlin Moran stop offering such inane  comments as;  "Nick Broomfield's persistently uncomprehending film Kurt and Courtney." And,  "She seems amazed that she and Kurt hadn't cast off plaid shirts and decamped  to the semi-tropics (of L.A.) years before.  (Select magazine, September  1999.) Caitlin, you don't even get the basic facts right, the Rome overdose was on  March 4th, not the 2nd.  Courtney was born in 1964, not 1965.  Kurt hated  L.A. Courtney loved it.  Kurt wanted to live in Seattle, Courtney L.A.  Kurt  died, Courtney got what she wanted.  You are persistently uncomprehending  Caitlin.  You would qualify to work for the Seattle Police Dept.    Freedom of information.  Justice.  Frances.