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Show CHECKMATES POLICE; ! COMMITS SUICIDE NfcV YORK, Aug. 6. Checkmating a ! policeman who sought to prevent her from committing suicide, Mrs. Sybil Bob-, Bob-, litt, formerly of Memphis, Tenn., sent a bullet through her brain in a Madison avenue office building tonight. The police was summoned by Frank H. Goddard, a New York salesman, who informed in-formed him that the woman was about to commit suicide in his office. Hurry- , ing to the office, the policeman found her sitting at a desk with a revolver pressed to her temple. ! The patrolman and the woman gazed 1 fixedly at each other for several minutes while he tried to induce her to lay down her weapon. Finally thinking she was off her guard, he leaped toward her, but; before he could reach her side she shot herself. Goddard told the police h- believed Mrs. Bohlitt, who was a widow, killed herself because she felt he did not reciprocate her infatuation for him. In her purse was found a card bearing the inscription, "sister, Mrs. E. H. Fos- j , ter, Denver, Colo." |