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Show SHOOTS YOUNG iifj AND COMMITS StICIDE 1 1 Jealousy Said to Be Cause ofj Double Tragedy; Girl May Recover. ! i PORT COSTA. Cal.. Nov. U!).-Frank Duval, a railroad switchman early today to-day shot Lcona. Edmunds, a waitress in a local hotel and turning tho pistol upon himself an hour later committed suicide by shooting himself through the heart. Although suffering from two bullet wounds and a possible fracture of the skull, it. is expected that tho woman will recover. When A. W. Jones was attracted by the screams of the woman and the! sounds of tlie shots ho found Duval beating his victim over the head with the revolver. As Jones dragged the wounded woman from the room. Duval I attempted to fire again, but tho hummer hum-mer of the revolver snapped on einptv shells. Jones returned in time lo sec Duval fire two shots into his own bod3. ! Tho dead man left a sealed letter ad - dressed to his brother in Sncrnment 0. 1 where Duval lived until four mouths :iK- . . ' Jealousy is said to have been 1 1 ; 0 1 causo of lbo suicide aud attempted murder. |