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Show DISGRACE ANDJ)EATH Twin Brothers Arc Suicides Sui-cides to Escape Shame at Arrest of One. ST. LOUIS, March 17. Dr. A. B. McKee was found dead and his twin brother and comrade, Charles McKee, dying in the stable of Dr. McKee at Edwardsville, 111., today, under circumstances circum-stances that Indicate a double suicide to escape the disgrace that threatened the physician and which the brother dreaded as much as if It were his own: This explanation grows out of the arrest ar-rest of Dr. McKee a few days ago. He was known to have been greatly worried wor-ried over the case, but it was not thought he would commit suicide. When the bodies were discovered Dr. McKee had been dead several hours and Charles McKee was breathing faintly but died fifteen minutes later. Death came from the Injection of morphine. |