Show Old Racing Stallion Commits Suicide When Hitched to Cart Pittsburg Sept 17 Word has ball reached here ot of the tho strange death ot c lr Red Bed Wilkes lIkes a II famous old stallion once the pride of the h late Captain Brown The horse came eam to to t his death deat 11 by dashing over a cliff feet hh In a manner that leads loads to the belief f that It H was wa Intentional en on the sal ani animals mare mals part Tho The old pensioner which since siDell the death of ot his master had lived In lux luxury luxury luxury ury on the farm Carm of James Ward ard neph nephew ne h hew ew of Captain Brown was at last ant by being coupled to a oart cart and committed suicide It was wan the first time that the horse horRe more than twenty years old had been boon hitched to a cart Mr Ward who Had d obeyed faithfully the conditions under which the horse was left leU In his care today oday decided to stretch the limbs of the old animal by making him pull a cart around tho the farm Carm for an hour or orso orso orso so Red fled Wilkes crossed a field with the cart creaking at his heels and then suddenly snorted and kicking up his bin heels heele was off oct In a mad race across acro he the open lIe He made straight for a It Cliff on n 1 bank of or the river It 1 a al ad adIng allag ft Ing lag there he halted for a moment nt on n the brink then sprang out Into halo spec pac P Seemingly every eyel bo bone was WM broken ly Iy y the tile tall fall Captain Brown used to drive R Rr 1 Wilkes himself In Is the small i of western Pennsylvania IDIa Ohio ani nI West Virginia DI His mark was I r I IFor For years yearn Irs after the animal had pa 1 his usefulness his rich owner usel t treed feed reed him each morning on apple f fr r n his hand Captain Browns tine ine rr r rIn r rIn In turning the horse holM over oyer to o 0 was waa that be ne he should hould never nyer be called r n nto i ito 1 to do any work and an that ne R e should be spared In making his hI l t days those of or |