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Show SAYS THE LORD TOLD HIM TO KILL HIMSELF STURGIS, Mich., Dec. 13. Frank Preston, a farmer living eleven miles south of this place, shot himself through the body, the bullet entering Just above the heart. He had tried to hang himself him-self but failed, so took a Winchester rifle and did the shooting. The bullet passed through his body. Imbedded Itself It-self in a beam overhead In the barn where he did the shooting. He was found by his father. When asked by his wife why he did It. he said "that the Lord told him he should kill himself, and If he did not succeed he would be taken and burned at the stake." |