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Show ATE FULL MEAL BEFORE COMMITTING SUICIDE Man Claiming to Be a " Nephew of Blanche Bates Takes Carbolic Acid in Restaurant. NEW YORK, June lO.A well-dressed man, known as Harry Blair, who ia believed to have been an official of the Metropolitan Street Railway company, and who claimed Blanche Bates, the actress, as an aunt and Magistrate Flammer as a close friend, ate a full meal in the Royal restaurant, at 1435 Broadway, and then killed himself at the table by drinking a quantity of carbolic acid. Blair went into the restaurant and ordered a steak with accessories, which made a hearty meal. With his coffee he asked for a newspaper news-paper and used this as a shield to keep others from seeing him when he poured the, poison In his cup. He drank the contents at one gulp, dropped the paper and then turned his chair around and handed the empty acid bottle bot-tle to a patron of te restaurant Bit-tins; Bit-tins; back of birn. This man was Charles Lawless. Al Blair banded him the bottle he said: "I've Just finished that." As Lawless took the bottle Blair dropped over on the floor,. An ambulance was called, but before the hospital was reached Blair was dead. . It was found that the man was without with-out money when he ordered the meal. |