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Show DKATH WAS INSTASTANlOl S. A Dejected and Sa.it Mich Roller lltowi out Hit lruiu. Ia the early months of last fall a young man who gave the name of A. B. Biller arrived in the city from Omaha, where two years ago he was conspicuous conspic-uous about the saloons of the oity, serv-j serv-j ing first in the capacity of bartender J and again as. hanger-on. Later he be-I be-I came a high roller, drove a fast horse aud supported a still faster w oman. Biller when he reached this city was friendless and did not have a penny in his pockets. Ho succeeded in making a raise however, and won ftlOlK) in a poker game. The Omaha Bee say he then went to the Montana mines, where for a timo ho made money rapidly and was considered rich. He sold oinVhis property and with $.'0,000 in cash ibnt to Helena and after a carousel of a week found himself penniless. Biller then drifted to the coast ami all trace of him was lost until last Friday morning, when ho walked into the Bellevue hotel at Seattle and asked for a room on the second floor. The clerk told him all the second-floor rooms were engaged, but that he could give him a good room on tho third floor for $1 per day. Biller paid his 'dollar and asked to be shown to tho toilet room. He entered the room and a moment later a cloud of smoke Issued through tho door, and the-report of a revolver startled the inmates of tho house, who at once rushed to the scene, where they found Biller lying on the floor, w ith the blood spurting from a hole in his right temple, and a revolver clutched iti his right haud. i)eath was instantaneous. In searching the body of the dead man, all that was found was a small memorandum book, a pocket knife, a door key, a flask of whisky, and (H cents in change. The inquest developed no new facts, aud a verdict of premeditated suicide was rendered. |