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Show 11111 HIS IIE.ll) OFF. John Er'ckion. ia Fit of DtspoaJeucj, Takes Lata of Life With a 41. Calibre FtvoWfr, j HIS Win; IS THE INSA3E A3ILC51. Turw Liu! Oa Left to the Charitie of a Cold World-A Pitiful Tal. of Woe. H was J o'clock l.it night that tfy Import Im-port of ii shooter ttiitigie! ith thn ' chiming church Wa and a Irvr ewnnd, later the bleeding twwfy of John KHr. son was found in an offiwi room connected con-nected with the National Ikr 09 Main street. A iug(iir sepic! i thill at tho hh pitnl, to which he hl Ih'cb remmeti, death took him at evn n Clot k th. morn 1 114 The gutt shot that gaihrred ve!nw from the silence that ehar;cteries aabbalh tnening on M tin lii m tim iignal for a g -nera! xtanijM'de in 'm direction di-rection and before (he jmo! j! trtn smoking i-hnmbcr er t lwd it W34 packed w it It an t.xi irri s , 111 uiMtr Th t ill anil angtiliir fornt ef tiii.-er Sullivan W it In-nding over Ute limp d death doomed ImIv of th elt langh irri'rwhen Tim retirir anit upon the scene. I ie et of a rhall" uppoiied the bead of John hri kanni hi body w a mretched .i. r.-i nihr and hi feet thai were encad In rnse shoe riM..d on the i!oor i roma yan Ing oiitii e In hi skull, a lew inche above the right tetliple, ni.iwiii w.,k r wiv with the force of NUgara Th patrolman had pi ke I up an ivorv handled. Cull' 44 ealiiu rt(d vrr, wilh single v irjtnt rlmitilr and atrtnd rvnditig th shocking h fend that a vUihlrt in the i.ctis 1'poii thf llior w a aii keniag pause of bliwid and bi aiti thcr thl pitperi'il wall the brush of death had wrpl. It the perfect netting Mr a perfect tl aged v. The principal in it w a iill Ixeatlnag whila the w hispering of lh apaelatora ' wa intei rupteil by a eroaking frtii hi I broat. A surgeon had atr-Mdy ben nniiti'd and presently Dr ruikwt.in made h.a appeal ant e. A lutu h of tub mii rimm ai t t, cnnvini ed him that dnaih aa n if. Krieksnn'a 'r '""en tiiadrt to art by hU own hand. Tltcr a hnpa of dragging amtialhinfr frui hi umn If pa that would m-u nil qm-n-I (ion a to ' lb perpctr '"f 1 I thu drmdftil dwl. hmtr-var. and to thi end the nrgenii tnderuk In eorr? him, Stiiindanl wine adininUtrrett hypoderiiiictily, 'I hern was a lltfnl tW jlellilig of (be linger that er(ird t gouge al III blf.lt. 'I lie l tll'ihr uathraiy, thick ! and W iiliug A", the ilnetur'a ai(n.il a half ibi eti odnn-lai odnn-lai v pull hen ei nun i d the aImoS pliltM'leiii Iwidy lo the m;iii roni An aequiiiiiian. i' -litk the t"iui aad spoke lo the tiiunnn intu man "mm 1'iu ir" h" aakcl No vHab'i cinti f 10111 th inn nbug lips. 1 'ho w itn"), had recited his IsiM alnrr. A wagMu cuiiie rtsiiiig ot th street an hour after Hie siartlmjf r-port r-port of the weapon and .Lihn Km slretelied on a tmiUtrs reittiurd tn the huspital The awful hide from ntlili h the br tiu as oozing had lien envelop ! fii and sluil nut Irortt the g ilti crowd, Al the iiiiinnary IT rinketinn (n,.ti tiedtontiik wilh l'i tthiwly "inkiitg palienl. Hbi tUlif" Keeuied U lie t lire, Ag:iin h siuiit t Ui soma lory f the tragedy Ituiit t ri.-ksim Imt tiie suicide bps wrrt waled lu rut r Through ibe niitlit h ltniif'd and at l?li i rbt.k lhl ltrnifl ill" bUilf id .iiiishine wer shmtttng throttijh th lullice the atftiggle undetl .l!l h VIV Wit ! l 'J he rh a t nti n awful turpi lw tm his friends, nod although be iiiad B' man the ctnlodmn of bi sorrows it la well known th Jt be hnd tliarn, I hern were no w itnesses (o Hie deed Al the ill fatl hour Duncan l'Btp bell, a man employed at, Ih l,lib ( kery. and B, I'ek", ; ''k in the N.i ti'inal res'atiranl were ianimf at tht Itineb i-.ninler in eonveriation lh I..MIle ..-s..e Us pr-'priM"! 1 il it f tiMn whleh thev all ngren i, hrint one, hd lhty eie .. npyiif h position at the ..unlet the report .' a rrtop.er lait in thin etrs H li'el.arf they saw the smoke powder rnritng abne Ih" nfflrc room. I rtlsited I" the n-oMi '' Saul imp. ! bell, 'mid found Kr Jxhn ii)kitt(E la I a chair I took hold t( his itio ao"l just at that moni. Bt lw rd nnd fail : roa the -hairs, m von mm hmt , stotnebodf hadtirt it"" thrieke! t'aaip-lil t'aaip-lil wildly and hyiei i. i.ly (ow do ton kmm. t!-ioo t". dwlrctue who lia.l Iteatd th dectasi ! lion. Cawpiu'li, ciiuiiiijc down aonia-I aonia-I whitt, titn ,lted t(t t ifttultanoii with tor report of th pistol ht tfi I tfoor adinittinf to the frn; . loee.j with S a ...' iii l iio thrf . tt Mf4. tha I Mitiml of footstep ami lh 4 ', ttiir ntwniog on she thoMtigftfar m jinn oipi II no ow hart . In h's )tidujnt. whn h as j thi Htoniral was ttttiffi? usiaifv. j the ,( ta't that . prf eiite. lbM U 1 the i.Hdu was th j, w.hk 'f at assis) j Peter Joha.aon Uretei fe h'W, bin Ibn endeeee agaiost hat fnlWm9 was decidedly fas-bi Il "'' thai b bad bre arn u rash from thr ttnm I a few momeoU brfor hi's and el-t el-t Iota. Johnson wa Ustrtnew4 by delrrtira aod a reporVaf. lo whom ha i tobord Ihr aama .wry Ha had bn I riue.r4 by .rt-ks.)o to t'n the mtr f )a and bad a dranien tioarr who ha4 fallen into tha official net At Ktlv' ainva h fi"d ho dvife4 him to b-t Ihe pnsT rtwnain ! b had sotx'red tB. Johneao h then started in retrice haa te and reaihed fin sfrrat, when be wm e:.t.f by th efowd He waa in n admitird lo the aad fnusd i;rirkn a dsrnt4 Jotuwwo ttorj waa Wa out by otiera, bt 4 was deemed advisable to hold those who were about the place on the eve of the fatal shot and they were accordingly accord-ingly taken under stirveilance. Campbell was still of the impression that a murder bad boon committed, but there was little or nothing to bear him out. Everything pointed to an unmistakable unmis-takable case ot suicide and with that verdict the victim of his own desperate foolishness will go to the grave. It is diilicult to settle on a cause for the rash deed. It is said that ever since the wife of the suicide was, dispatched to the asylum for the insane he had been brooding over sorrows the burdou of which ho never told. Again it is said that business disappointments hud weighted him down until he was finally carried into despondency. Ho leaped from this into the grave and took his story with him. Ho leaves three children, who are practically orphans. The father goes to occupy a place in the cemetery while the motuer tills a lunatic's cell. A sad picture 1 |