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Show WENT TO THE DOGS AT A RAPID PACE Then Former Member of Diplomatic Service Ended His Miserable Existence. WASHINGTON, Jan. 20-A. W. Barrett, former secretary of the United States legation at Caracas, Venezuela, and brother of former Congressman W. - E. Barrett of Massachusetts, committed suicide sui-cide last night at the Ebbltt bouse, shooting shoot-ing himself through the heart. In a letter which he left the suicide laid his misfortunes misfor-tunes primarily to liquor and to his Infatuation In-fatuation for a married woman older than himself on whom, he said, he spent all his money. His wife, it appears, had left him last August and since then, he said, be had gone to the dogs rapidly. |