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Show ENDS MISSPENT LIFE Officer Commits Suicide ou Day of Dismissal. VANl OIVER. Wash. Nov. rapt. Alga P BerTj committed huicloe here in. day iy shooiinu hlmseli through the heart lb" was recently tried by s general COUrt-marllal at Vancouver barracks and found gnlltv of conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman Th order for his dismissal arrived yeeterdaj Berr) was graduate of west Point, class of rM, and was, on duty as quarter-master quarter-master of the transport Buffnrd at the tune the charges weie preferred against him. Ho was a prominent member of the Masonic order being a thirty-second degree de-gree Mr son and i Mystic Shrlner lie u ft ;i note bequeathing his property to his wife and niolhc r. |