Show PARALYTIC RISES I It t fROM BED 89 TO IU END D r. r HIS LI OF 01 P PAIN IN I fj M. M HawkIns Shoots Himself Himself Him Him- HIm I self elf as Wife Buys Coffin Coin for Father John I. I M. M Hawkins of Mill Creek Crock for for- formerly merly of this cit city shot himself to death eath yesterday with a R shot gun cun I He Sup Supposedly paralyzed in the lower limbs and aDd therefore incapable of leav lea leaving ing his bis bed Hawkins while hi his wife I in tho city buiu buying a 3 coffin for her father barred the doors of his home i placed cd a double gun to liia is 9 oad d and und with a cane grasped in bis his I other hand pushed tho the tri trigger or back Several minutes later when his little I year old t y oar rold old daughter Roween re- re to th a house bouse from an errand land and could not gain ain entrance ex except opt through her fathers father's bedroom window windo she flie found his body lying Iving across the tho b bed d I lire e top of his bis head blown blonn completely I iff ML I Hawkins Hawkins' was 43 years old The Tbd rca rca- eon ton for tho the suicide was ill health Wife B Buying Baying g Coffin CoUin Yesterday morning mornin Mrs Irs Hawkins re re- d cd word vord that her father H. H HB B. B Buckwalter r of this cit city had bad just died and nc it fell to her hor to make the funeral arrangements She left for fOl the city bout about 8 S o'clock to purchase a a. coffin I Little Roween got ot her fathers father's bre breakfast breakfast break break- k fast st which he hc was WM accustomed med to take being unable to arise apparently apparent- apparent ly ly Just before 9 o'clock she left the I to go SO to that of ofa a a neighbor She WIS gone sono about a half balf hour Tho crippled man evidently with a 3 af final effort got sot out of bed and bobbled bob hob f r bled b by means of a cane to the tho doors securely cure ut y locking lockin and barrin barring each Then Jie- Jie returned to his bis bod bed arranging the bot gun gnu I so that he could discharge it iti I i b by if means of the cane held hold in his hand band f He e had bad placed the butt of the tho gun I against the foot of the bed ar ad d the them thep p muzzle m in in his month In this manner maun r I the ho he died diM instants instantly the entire head and upper jaw jaV being shot away I lr S Scene e at Undertakers ers s. s I finding her fathers father's body notified a nci neighbor and the sheriffs sheriff's office was told toW of the affair Deputy Deput Sheriffs Sharp and Steele wore wore det detailed il d on on n tho the case They The ordered the body t. t tAken ken to the Jo Joseph eph W V. Taylor un undertaking un nos i ert kin parlors where the tho body of at r air Mr r Buckwalter r father of Mrs Mra Haw Haw- RIDS kins had also been removed The dead body ody of her husband was brou brought ht to tho tac establishment while she was there thero arranging her ber fathers father's ther's funeral She I was eras not made acquainted with t the ho o awful aw lW f ful fuI l truth however and did not learn of of husbands husband death until she I PCT her s returned returned re reo re- re turned to her h home homp me in Mill Creek l' l t She is prostrated with grief rie over ocr the thel I tragedy l' l r. r |