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Show I USES TWO BULLETS TO END HIS LIFE STOCKTON, Cal.. July 25. Supervisor Henry B. Knight of the Fifth district or San Joaquin county committed suicide tills morning at his ranch near Lathrop. by ehootlng. He got up and dressed himself him-self and, without telling any ono of his intentions, stepped outdoors and .shot himself In the left breast. The shot apparently ap-parently did not strike n fatal spot, and the desperate, man deliberately threw another an-other shell Into the gun and, took n second shot, falling dead without' a word. Tin two shots were near together, one striking strik-ing the heart- The deceased wns n prosperous pros-perous fanner and leaves s wld.ow and children. He was serving his tu'd term' as supervisor. Nervous prostration, owing to overwork. Is given by the family fam-ily as the cause for his act. |