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Show two tiiii mrat : Bob Johnson and lurry Smith Pen ! trite the Mysterisa of tin J Great Unknown. i . j JOHNSON SHOOTS HIM3ELF, i " While Lirry Taka tha Morphine Eoatd -The Detail of tha Tw Affair. Tired of Life." or -What" the l ; of Paying Koom Kent." U the title, orj should lie. of a doublo tragedy drama I enacted this morning. No double murder wa committed,.' but It might just well have hceo j murders of the two souls that have bow j passed into the great unknown. j It was a good day for nicide nU that U what the tragedies were. Tw o men are no more one shot hltrt-j self nnd the other poisoned himself will morphine. i And there U the story. Bth might have been tired of life on account of w here they had In room or what they" were obliged to eat In some of tho restaurants. res-taurants. Bin still. If they bad eier-i clued ii little patieuce. and kept on hoarding at the reeUurant. pistol o4 morphine would have had no tbaooe ir be. -In It." The llrsl suicide was discovered oarinj Ihls morning near the Stato road along n vide the tracks of the Uuh CentraJ rwlUJ way. Just two miles south of the city. The body was thai of an unknown maaKi He had shot hlmcU through thoj brain, Tho bullet was from a 38 calibre bulldog revolver and penetrated tn' forehead ust above tho eye. A ghastly! and bloody hole In tho head was pierced by the entry of the ball. Tho revnlver was found to lo clenched In tha ride.' right hand, while tho muitle of the deadly weapon wa between thi j thumb and forefinger of tho left handJ The latter member wero diacolorest with powder. The body of tho auMdo wa fonintt near tha railway track by Albert Van 1 Cott, F. Millait and Hugh Cannon, fpoii tho discovery of tho UaP( man the polieo headquarters w ere not Hied, and Charles Skowoa, South Third wreet undertaker, went after the body. Ho returned with it 10 o'clock, and made a futilo attempt U liinl Coroner Taylor In order that an Inquest In-quest might be held to ealabliah. If possible, pos-sible, the man' Identity. But up tn 3t o'clock this afternoon the coroner eonlih not be. found. Jt I presnmed that bo l out n( Hie oily. Tin ha w deputy, and tho undertaking Ann would not Investigate Investi-gate the man' clothe to "ce who ht might be for fear that tho coroner might take objection I ucli procedure on tho part of person without authority. The undertaking establishment wa. visited by many people thia morning and afternoon, for the purpose of Iden- i tifylng the dead man. Those who j thought they knew him claim that the i suicide Is Ib.b Johnson, a gambler of' LeaiMlle, who came here fW day ago. Clarence Wellington, who left ; I.eadvllln two week ago, visited th remains and after looking at tho deailj man nay ho I no other than Boh John-! mm. "her erm to think that the ul cidn la Holi Johnoon' br'rther., but Mr, Wellington cUim that he did not have l brother In the western country. If Itrj be Hob Johmaoi, hi homo U in Brook, j ly u, New York. By occupation he w a miner and a sort of a tinhorn gambler gam-bler at Charley Thompson' P1" '? Lcadvlllc. At i o'clock this ftftemoon tho umlr-q taker succeeded in flndiug a jiwtleo oft the peace, who empanelled a Jiuy M'lsj an ltniiet is in progrrs. |