Davis County Clipper | 1902-10-03 | Page 2 | An Epidemic of Suicide

an epidemic of suicide lieutenant commander william V bronaugh of the united states stales navy committed suicide tuesday on the battleship Near kearsarge sarge at the navy davy yard says a new york dispatch by blowing out his brains with a revolver friends of commander bronaugh believe that helas he was very much worried over the manifold duties of his position as executive officer which are conceded to be more arduous than those of any other officer in the navy captain purnell P F harrington of the brooklyn navy yard said there Is an epidemic of suicide in the navy as surely as there was ever an epidemic of fever ever such a thing may occur and cannot be explained the hie man had probably been thinking of tile the other suicides which are very sad affairs and then in an unguarded moment the desire to try it seized him anait and it was allover all over in a minute