Show a a a I I C SE U I hh I Harry Harr Crossman committed i at a t his room Broom hotel building some ome s time timo te Saturday by shooting him himself self sel s elf through the heart His lifeless I body ody bod b was discovered about last j I evening e the pistol still sti clutched in his r hand hand h This was the third attempt to take his h is own life the other two being made madey by b y swallowing morphine The young man man was a a son of ot W W V Grossman Crossman C but hut was as not living at home being eing b employed as a Janitor about the Broom B room hotel building For several years y ears he be has been addicted to the ex ra excessive x c use of ot morphine a habit first frt formed ormed forme f by b taking the drug to relieve r lev pain p ain following severe seere sickness He lie Hl made m ade many attempts at to break the tl habit abit h anti and had taken several cures but always a aw relapsed and lately the drug dr drugas was w as very ver seriously affecting his mind Within the last week or so he had a hallucination h that the tenants in the ba building b were plotting against him and a nd following him about wherever ha he h went went w ent Saturday morning moring he be stated to a friend frend f that he secured no sleep sl ep the night ight n before and that he Isa wanted to be b be beo relieved r e of his duties to go to his hip room and a nd take eo a good 3 sleep top Permission p is was given g iven him blat to do so the young man reiterating r several times Ures that tat he dill did not n ot want to be disturbed disturbed As his habits habis h had been quite erratic his pro prolonged prolonged longed l absence was wa not noticed until last Jast l ast night when an investigation was started s and a a Mr Downs in looking over ver o the transom saw the young man stretched s on a cot dead He had drawn the covers cover partly party about bout a his body and fred fired directly into his h is heart with wih a revolver From appearances there had been no struggle s and the bed clothing had muffled mufed the sound of ot the shot so that it I I t was not heard by any anyone one In the building The clothing and body just justa above bove a ove the th heart were burned by the powder Justice Arthur Hall Hal summoned a jury jur which will wil hoIL an Inquest this morn mornIng Ing i ng and the boys b ys father had the body bOd removed r to undertaking es establishment t No letter leter or writing of ot any kind was left heft In explanation of ot tha th act acL The young man was as about 28 23 years yenta of or age ace |