Show YOUTH IMITATES A SUICIDE But the Shot Misses Heart of the Youngster Who Emulated Dead Friend Los Angeles Cal John John Handling a year seventeen-year-old teamster shot himself the other day because his chum Floyd Mayhew did the same some som w weeks ks a ago u Mayhew Is dead I but Handling will wilt live Handling did not select the scene of his death with such a good eye for romantic surroundings as did young Mayhew The Tho young southerner homesick for his loved cotton fields nelds went to Westlake park and there there while tho the band was as playing a melody which haunted him put a pistol to his head bead and fired He lingered for a month and then died Undeterred red by the pains Mayhew suffered Handling Handlin went vent into a barnat barn barnat at Central avenue and fired a bul let into his breast It missed the heart but punctured tho the left lung As the shot rang out the cashier In the offices of or the John W W. Snowden company was making out Handling's time check Tho The young man had been discharged He was taken to the receiving hospital put on the tho same table on which his chum Mayhew Mayhew May May- hew had been beon laid and was later taken to the county hospital where Mayhew died |