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Show Tragic Knd of a Riotous Career. A shot echoed through the corridors of the Baldwin hotel, at San Francisco, the other afternoon. Attaches of the house broke into the room from whence the sound came and found R. B. Schwarzkoph lying on the bed with a pistol in his hand and a bullet in his brain. The man (lied at 7 o'clock t he evening of the same day. For some weeks prior to the suicide Schwarzkoph had 2a cut a wide swath tSlifcw in San Francisco sporting circles. ($-2!v 1 Ho spent money freely and gave w if ' out the impression K.' fer that his resources f Y were inexhausti- -ble. But t hey had wK-their wK-their limit, and 'i when that was reached the young '&: man replenished ' jsip561 his empty purse, first by borrowing K' B- schwaetzkoph. and then by securing cash on worthless Xew York drafts. A warrant had been issued for his arrest and officers were after him. when he closed his account with life. It is said that he sqandered a small fortune in making presents to prize lighters and people peo-ple of kindred "occupations." |