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Show SUICIDE OF GREEK Peter Colinati Ends His life Wit& a RcTolTcr in a Lonely Spot. ' ; Side by sldeln the undertaking par-j lors of S., D.! Evans, 213 South State' street, are the bodies of two men, both foreigners, who came to their deaths within a day of each other, by gunshot wounds. One was killed while attempt- ing to escape from the guards that had been placed over him after he was cap-j tured In the act of committing a bur-) glary, the other committed suicide in"a lonely place in the northwestern part of the city last night. The body"of the man who was killed by the guard has not been identified. i The man who. ; killed himself was Peter Colinati, a Greek, 30 years old. The body was found by a Rio Grande watchman, lying in a lonely and for-i saken spot twenty feet east of the Rio Grande track, and 300 vardsf west of the Short Line track, at a point north of Ninth North street, on Sixth West, street, at 9 o'clock this morning. ! When found, the man had been dead seven or eight hours. A revolver1 clutched in the right hand and a bullet hole through the head told tha story of the death. As soon as the body waa found the police department and Act4 ins Coroner Dana T. Smith were notl-f fled and the body. -was taken to S. Dj Evans' undertaking parlors. It was learned that the. dead man. who waa identified as Peter Colinati, had pur- chased the revolver with which he had ended his life, from D. A. Markel. a Commercial street pawnbroker, July 8. In the pockets of the dead man's clothing was found a 'gold pin of a Greek society, bearing the Greek let ters, "Epsllon Sigma Pi," and a number num-ber of Greek newspapers, which were in the hat and through' which the bul. let had passed. The pin also bora the" date, "1&98." . Actine Coroner Dana T.. Smith has decided that the case was plainly one of suicide, and and that no inquest will be held. j |