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Show Sport Promoter Ends His Life BALTIMORE, Sopt. 17Gcorge C. Morrison, Mor-rison, president of the Title Guarantee &. Trust company of this city, committed suicide somo time last night In ono of the private rooms at the Baltimore Athletic Ath-letic club. The report to the pollco says that Mr. Morrison ended his llf0 with gas. which ho Inhaled through a tube. iIr Morrison, who was about 40 years old and married, occupied a conspicuous poHltlon in the business and political affairs af-fairs of this city and was a prominent nguro In horse racing. "He left a note, a portion of which was made public, in which ho Indicated that the attacks of a newspaper rolatlve to his interest in the Havre do Grace raco track was one reason rea-son for the suicide. "God knows whether it is Jur.t for th self-sacrificing work of years to be not at nought by the onslaughts of a yollow newspaper against which there is no defense," de-fense," the note said. Governor Goldnborough recently accused Mr. Morrison of making mlsropresenta-tlonn mlsropresenta-tlonn concerning tho Hartford county racing rac-ing bill Th grand jury started an Investigation In-vestigation of tho Havre do Grace track .and Mr. Morrison was to have been summoned. sum-moned. Mr. Morrison was chairman of tho Democratic advisory committee of Maryland. Mary-land. C. A. Fairbanks, vice president of the Title Trust and & Guarantee company, of which Mr. Morrison was president, sold there was nothing wrong In Mr. Morrison's relations with the company. Mr. Morrison also was first vice president presi-dent of the Baltimore Trust company and was connected with many other business Institutions. The communication retained by the coroner was later made public. It was addressed "to tho public" and was devoted de-voted entirely to a long explanation of Morrison's connection with the Hartford county racing bill. |