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Show BOY THIEF COMMITS SUICIDE IN CHURCH CEN'TERVILLE. 111.. March 13. John Smith, aged 15, threatened with arrest for stealing and selling a calf hide a week ago, was found in the Fordville church early yesterday morning dead. He had broken into the church, raised one end of a rolltop desk and, putting his neck under the foot-rest ponnecting the two sections of the desk, had knocked away the prop, allowing the heavy roll to fall on his throat and strangle him to death. He clutched In his lifeless hand a sh8j;p knife, doubtless to use In seeking death. If necessary. His pockets were filled with loose corn, on which he must have lived for the last seven days. |