Show WifE DISCUSSES STAHL Believed That Family Troubles Caused Chick to Take His Life Boston March 31 Chick Stahl Stall I captain and former manager of the Boston Amer American AmerIcan Amerlean ican lean league baseball b team has left an unsolved mystery m in his sudden suicide Today Toda his stricken wife is speeding to toward toward toward ward the place where his body is lying with this cry Cr on her lips I 1 could have saved him if It I had been there One question is on the tongue of the entire baseball world today todal Why did dill Stahl take his own life In the opinion of many of those clos dOs closest closest est to the dead ball baU player something more than worry over oer baseball must have hae driven him to his death Had I Gone With Him If 11 I had gone cone one with with him said Mrs Stahl this would never have happened Oh Chick Chick You wanted me rae to go with you ou she cried despairingly but I thought it would be better for me to stay here In Boston and wait walt for you If Ir I had bad only been with you those nights when you were tossing about sleeplessly with wide open eyes Then you would have hae had somebody to confide In Oh Chick you ou worried over oer little things things nobody else would have bothered about It is all my fault all my m fault I ought to have been with you but it is too late now too late For some time Stahl had been brooding over some secret trouble declare his friends and now they ask aek What was ur it 11 1 itHe He had never neer so far as is Ie known knon shown any signs of insanity He had reached the height of oC baseball fame his home life Ufe was apparently happy but these facts only deepen the mystery of the tragedy There is a belief bellet that Stahl had long since dwelt on the problem of cutting short his life Else why did he continually talk about it to the members of the team And the question is unanswered Only at Louisville Stahl said to DIneen one morning while rubbing his face with witha a solution of carbolic acid I 1 wonder if this stuff would kill a man Would it responded DIneen why a spoonful of ot it would kill a dozen men Talked Suicide Then rhen I have hae a good mind to take a good drink of it continued Stahl Dineen looked at him and said How would your mother or your wife like She that kind of news Chick shook his head and answered BO so Bill it would kill my mother Although not a man who ho often orten talked religion Stahl brought up the subject again alain and again in Little Rock and went to holy hob communion while there friends admit that it was only natural that a man carrying such a re responsibility responsibility would have worried some but Stahl was too sensitive and level leel head headed ed they said to let that drive drie him to death Moreover he had on Monday last been relieved of the greater part of his responsibility responsibility and everything seemed to be run running ning along smoothly The members of the Boston team were with him to a man The owner of the club had implicit faith in him and aUd his ability to handle a great ball team He had a high salary was lately wed to a abright abright bright Boston girl and apparently was at peace pence with all the world The fact that Stahl had ordered his fel tel fellow fellow tellow low players to practice had donned his own uniform and apparently fully in intended Intended intended tended to Join them up to the very mo moment moment ment he put the bottle of deadly acid tobis to his bis lips only deepens the mystery What thought came Into his mind that finally overcame his resistance to the Im Impulse Impulse impulse pulse that had seemingly long been call caU callIng calling Ing to him to end his lifer Ure is the ques question questIon question tion his friends are asking today Arid Mid no one can cnn answer |