Show Man Asks Pel Permit mit mitto to Buy Gun and Commit Suicide Fred Brown 63 sick poor and tired walked into unto police headquarters headquarters headquarters head head- quarters Tuesday afternoon I I want a permit to buy a revolver re- re volver he told Captain Charles W. W Pitts I want to kill my my- self Come in here and lets let's talk it over over said the captain Brown complied He had been beena a and blacksmith The automobile drove him out of business Illness followed poverty He h had d been committed to the county infirmary He left there two days ago hoping to tos s sell ll a little property he owned for enough to buy a chicken farm He had been bean ful The rest of his life loomed only as a series of drab infirmary infirmary infirm infirm- ary days Just give me the permit he urged I can buy a gun and Save save the county a lot of trouble The man will probably be sent back to the Infirmary |