Show I FEAR CAUSED SUICIDE Chicago Woman in 111 Health Shoots Herself Rather Than Undergo an Operation Chicago Sept SMts Helen AVorlh Ington Purinton wife of Col liolmun Greene Purinton prominent in Masonic and National Guard circles committed suicide last night at her home by shooting herself In the mouth Despondency over continued illhealth coupled with the dread of a dangerous surgical operation which her physicians physi-cians had told her was Inevitable is thought to have been the cause of her actThe The weapon with which she took her life a heavy army revolver of oScall ber was a wedding present given her by her husbands Knight Templar comrades com-rades on the eve of her departure for the Philippines with Col Purinton three years ago |