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Show Accidental Shot Caused Death of Paine Is Reported Physician Says Pilot .Rallied Before Be-fore Death and Told Him Gun Was Discharged Unintentionally in Handling Peath of T. O. (Top) Paine, air mall pilot, Sunday morning from a bullet wound, waa accidental, according to Or. J. J. Oalllgan, who attended the man at tho emergency hcspltal after ha had ahot hlmeelf In tha jaw, thai bullet perforating tha baaa of tha brain. I The death certificate, algnad by Dr. .Oalllgan. fives accidental anootlng ssl the cauae. I'alno at, flrat waa believed to have ahot hlmeelf with aulcldal Intent, In-tent, but an hour before hla death regained re-gained coneclouaneea and upon being queatloned aaaerted tnat tho anootlng waa accidental. Paine, during tha lurid Interval, told Dr. Oalllgan that ho had no remembrance remem-brance of the anootlng and had no reason rea-son for attempting aulctde. He remembered remem-bered nothing from tha time the gun waa dlacharged until ho regained consciousness, con-sciousness, he aald. Peine received hla death wound following fol-lowing a party In honor of hla birthday birth-day anniversary. Officer wero called to hla home at 111 Kdlth avenue ahortly after I o'clock Hunday morning upon complainta of neighbors, wno protested that 1'Hlne. Mrs. Paine and W. L. Mar-shall. Mar-shall. Mrs. Palne'a brother-in-law, were making a disturbance, the police say. When the officers knocked at the door Pains covered them with a pistol, but lowered It when told that he was not dealing with robbers, but officers. It waa when he went to put the gun away that he accidentally ahot hlmeelf, air mall offlclala believe. The air mall offlclala acout the theory the-ory of aulclde. They declare that If Paine had contemplated aulclde he would not have taken thla method. They maintain that if he Intended self-destruction self-destruction he would have found a better bet-ter way. since he was to take his plane out Monday and could have gone up several thousand feet snd then allowed his plane to craah to the ground. There were no powder marke on Palne'a face, which would have been present had he held the gun cloae to hla head, they assert. In support of ths theory that the shooting waa accidental. acciden-tal. Also they cite other lnatancea where guna were accidentally discharged dis-charged through handling. |