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Show SQUANDERS WEALTH, THEN KILLS HIMSELF NEW YORK, May 2. Despondent because be-cause he had squandered the last penny of a fortune of $500,000 left him by his father a few years ago. Henry H. Acker man. a retired broker. 48 years old, killed himself at his home. No. 454 Fiftieth street. South Brooklyn. Brook-lyn. Leaving his dinner table he told Mrs. Ackernian that he was going to his room to write letters, and must not be disturbed. Almost Immediately Mrs. Ackerman heard a shot and, hurrying to the room, found his body . lying across the bed, with a bullet hole in the left temple. On receipt of his inheritance. Acker-man Acker-man bought the Fiftieth street house and deeded it to his wife. It Is inow' the family's sole possession. He fiad been a high liver and there were j&v-eral j&v-eral sensational episodes in his life, the most notable of which perhaps was a furore he created recently, among the after-theater dinners in the Hotel Clarendon. Clar-endon. Brooklyn, when he rushed in flourishing a revolver and declaring he would kill the proprietor on Bight. Ackerman Ack-erman was arrested. "V Besides his wife. Mr. AckeVnwn leaves a son. Herbert, 25 years V: Charles, 15, and a married dans JiSfT. Mrs. James Nell Of South Brook)yjft, |