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Show "PATRICK CLANCY, SUICIDE." The Self InlUeted Death of a San Fran-altem Fran-altem Capitalist. "Patrick Clancy, capitalist," was the term by which the guests in the Ahlborn house In San Francisco knew one of their fellow boarders, and not one of thorn supposed sup-posed that "Patrick Clancy, capitalist," would ever te known as "Patrick Clancy, anicide." Mr. Clancy had long been Buffering from an asthmatic affection which the doctors , pronounced incurable, and that, do doubt, explains his action. , The circumstances which attended his suicide were particularly horrible. The discovery of his death was made by a chambermaid. When she opened tho door of his room she noticed nothing wrong, but a step or two further and a dead body hanging to a closet door was revealed to her. A rope was tightly knotted knot-ted around the neck, the hands were tightly clinched, the eyes, wide open and staring, were bulging bulg-ing from a purple face. Hur screams hrmiffhtnfhArnfvw PATRtCK CLANCY. ple t0 tbe room and the door was relieved of its terrible burden. When the body had been removed re-moved to the morgue It was found that the rope had cut deep Into the dead man's neck. And now another name on the official offi-cial records has opposite it the dreadful word suicide. |