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Show H Death Was H jFfi Choice H California outh-'Devidcd H . ... A0' Li-Oc Without m Stuccthcart. ' H, ;. When He Learned His Suit Was tj Hopeless. He Shot Himself 1 i n Home of Girl H ie JLot)cd. B For four IiIiIpoum Ihiiiim ttoilcusla m Hewitt, n .vomit; kIi-1 of Hollywood, H ' Cnl., watched her rejected lover bleed- H Ior to deatli on her fiont porch, suys H tho Los AiiRelcs TIiiich. Slio Kept n l solitary, awful vigil liy liN wide until j Bho saw lit tn die a huIcIiIc'h di-atli Just H ' before tlic doctors came. B It wns a pitiful ease of "wlieie love M i Is a pi mo for throe," and John t'crrln, H SHE rOU.Nl Till: 11,)IY (II' Ilflt I.0V1U1 H LIMP IN HIS fll.Ull. H a young Hlveislde fruit uinii, dropped H out of tlio piinc by Hciullng n bullet H crushing Into bis brain. H i MIhs Hewitt Is an iittrnctho youutf H' girl, mid 1 'oi rin bad loved her to lies- B peratlou for two years. Hut there wn.i H nnotber young nut it In tlio ease. H .J l'errln met tlio kIi'1 In Los Angeles B nud told her that ho would kill himself H'4 rather than live without her. M I She wan afrnld he would carry out H bis threat. She kept him with her by H girlish wiles to prevent. If sho could, H this awful tragedy. H She left him just long enough to go H In the house to get a glass of water H enmo biieU to 1 ml lilm dying from a H pistol shot. H Dm lug the last apricot season Miss H Hewitt nud her widowed mother went H to Veuturu to work at the packing H houses, l'errln camo hero to nee them, H n and, Dialing them gone, rushed off to B ; Ventura after them. B Again ho begged the girl to marry Bjjj him, nud again slio refused. The moth- HS cr, It seems, favored the other young BjH uiau In the case. Bjb In the desperation of utter dlscour- BjV ngement l'errln vowed he would kill BM 4 himself. Tlio f lightened girl turned Ba p the subject and asked him to go out to BX v the Hollywood ranch with her, next Ba i dny. (iratcful as a dog for a caress, B the unhappy young fellow was only too BtK i eager to accept. Bfli" The lieu Ills have a little place on Btj .. the corner of Pluiuiuer and Banta Mo- BtJ nlca avenues. There was no one elso BJ at the house, and they sat together BtJ ' for a long time on the front porch. Bjjj l'errln said nothing more of his lovu. BJ! It was iindei stood that the answer was Btj; llunl. lie seemed so despondent and Bj' t dlsheiu'teued that tlio girl's heart went B out to him in pity. Hj She went Into the bouse to get him n H- glass of w ater. H It nuist bne come over him In all Its i bitterness that Just us sho then rose r and left him Just so some day sho 't would fade out of his life forever. And Bj!; bo knew something better than water BJ for what ailed him. i The girl heard a shot and rushed out H to llnd the body of her lover sloughed K , down limp In his chair. The pistol was BjV' still smoking In his hund, and a dark BJ little current was beginning to trickle, Hj trickle, trickle, down over tlio smooth H whlto of his forehead. Bj She ran frantically Into tlio back H yard and culled an old soldier who was ' working there and told blm to run as j fast ns be could for doctors. J Somehow ho didn't get to them In Bj time. BJ! The girl sat thuio hour after hour, BJ' brooding over tlio dylug man, trying to BJ' get Mm to speak to her, trying to get BJ, Bomo sign of Ufa from him, doing what BJj little things she could think of to do BJ for him. BJ Finally her mother and sisters camo BJ out from town, Innocent of all knowl- BJ) edge of what had happened, They were BJ: horrified to find the man dying thuro BJj on the porch. BJj At last the doctors came. Just as BJ' they arrived tho young man died. BJ ; It was found that he had shot him- BJ1 elf through the temple with a 82 call BJ1 Vier revolver, HJkX . HHHHHHb BBBBjmBBl; - |