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Show WEALTHY MAN DEAD OF BULLET WOUNDS NEW TORK, Jan. 20. Jacob Rldgeway Wright, who Is paid to be a wealthy and . socially prominent resident of Wilkes-barre. Wilkes-barre. Pa., was taken from Jiis apartments in tke Hotel Imperial today with a bullet , wound in his left side. He died' a few v . "hours after being taken to a hospitalr Before his death he declared that the - fhot which caused his Injury had -been ' fired by himself by accident. His physician. physi-cian. . Dr.1 Howard. A. Pardeev ' however, who was with him at the time of the - 'shooting, was detained for a time by the . police as a witness. ' When the policeman who arrested Dr. ' . Pardee arraigned the prisoner In Police court he said the doctor had told him that he believed Wright had phot himself because be-cause of business troubles. The physician was then" paroled nntil tomorrow. Mr. Wright bad been a guest at the Imperial Im-perial for more than four months, aad , during, nearly ail that time has beea ia poor health. |