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Show STUDIED SUICIDE METHODS, Aged Bachelor, Dreading Blindness, Ends His Life. NEW YORK. Fob. 12.-Droadlng blindness, blind-ness, and grieving because ho could no longer read and onjoy his favorite German Ger-man classics. Carl Zcicl;, an eccontrlc bachelor. 6cventy-one years old. yesterday put an end to his life by gas asphyxiation, asphyxia-tion, at his home, No. Hendrlx street. Zelck decided to dio by gas after a long and careful study of suicide statistics. Ho had made elaborate preparations for tho event, dining well with somo friends the night before, and dressing hlmsolf In his best clothes before he lay In the bed and turned on tho gas. Zelck. after n prosperous pros-perous business career, retired several years ago. Ono year ago his right eye became so affected as to bo all but blind and the strain that this put on the other eyo tilled him with the fear that he would eventually go blind. He left a will by which his property Is bequeathed to his brother In Germany and a sister in Illinois. Ho requests that hie body be cremated and the ashes scattored to tho winds. |