Show ENDED LIFE ill A BULLET Ii I i Suicide of of Pension Pensin Office at Washington After Bat Battle Battie I Itie tie tle With Police Folice Washington June 7 After holIng holding the i I police polke at bay for six hours Dr Joseph I j an of the pension of office flee fice shot himself through the brain this morning while insane Laboring under a I delusion that an attempt was being made mad to murder r him he fired at pedestrians and into the homes of his neighbors and when the police came camp he reloaded his pis pistol pistol tol toi and fired upon them preventing pl their near nemr approach to the house ho Altogether he fired about fifty shots in this way wa none I of which however took effect Before arming arm In himself passed his I three little children through the second I story window to persons In m the adjoining house His wife remained with him en endeavoring endeavoring to quiet him but becoming alarmed when he opened fire on the Ute po policemen policemen she joined her children in the neighbors house At t the time he shot I himself he was sitting in the time second story stor window of his home He first rolled up his sleeve and injected cocaine in his arm to steady himself for the fatal shot He HI plunged forward to t the ground found and died on the way Va to the hospital ho Dr Pos pistol came to Washington from front Wiscon Wisconsin I con sin about eighteen years ago He has relatives in that state |