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Show AEBOPLARE FLIGHTS CAUSE OF SUICIDE Soldier Who Assisted Wright ind Curtiss Could Not Stand Strain. NEW YORK, Sopt. 30. Worried by the responsibility of assisting the noronatits, Wilbur Wright aiul Glenn H. CurtJns. In preparation? for' their aeroplane Might at Governor's Island, Quarturma-stcr Sergeant Ser-geant James Caron of Company I, Twenty-ninth infantry, committed suicide In his bunk outside tho redoubt of Fort Jay last night, shooting himself through the head with a rifle. Caron had been delegated to assist Wrlgjht and CurtLsw In tho preparations for thoir flights during the past two days, and this scorned greatly to excite him. During the laic afternoon yesterday, when Wright was preparing to My, he frequently frequent-ly turned to a soldier near lilm and remarked: re-marked: "Why don't that follow go up? I can't stand ft any longer." After Wright had made his last lUglit Inst evening, and tlic crowd of vlsitorfa had loft the Island, Caron went to bin bunk, and, as h was turning In, said to Ills roommate: "Harris, old boy, good -by." Then Caron reached over to one side and grabbed his rifle, and, before Harris could prevent him, placed It to his bend and tired. He died almost Instantly, lie served four years in the Philippines and during ills service had received several medals for bravery. |