Show HILLS HIMSELF andrew bigler could not beir bear to to le in debt MONEY MATTERS DERANGED HIM shot himself in the heart with a shot gun inquest held on monday suicides sire are becoming fur far too fio fie quent in almost ever every issue dl if tile dail press A no c se sc A whore here some poor soul lias as loosed the silver hord himself the thiera r e are several c causes auses assigned sonic die broken hearted front from atre quieted 10 loo C others are insanely jealous intemperance domestic difficulties ant and eftim s poverty impels the unfortunate men or women to tako take their lives there are moments in the life of almost everyone Ahen w herc Sill Aall the world seems turned against i thiem them anti and nil all the future seems seeing a dirk dark moves abyss hope deserts them and despair loads leads them to the llie grove grave tle the suicide is generally gene rilly an ail object of com lit ise ration and should not be gilld judged 1 ell to it for wo we know not of his trials arid and tribulations his big struggles his disappointments liis his shattered idols his broken life we know nothing of ills his tice sleepless ples nights sh when and misfortune popped bit open ell and burned their alii brai brands i oss upon his braidi we do not know that lie was responsible for foi his act nor can call we say ally that his condition was brought on by his own ac act to too often is it caused by unwise friends and the falsity of others it often transpires that one short turn of fortunes wheel which often comes a lay day too late might save a life ant and krep keep back lie ile cloud that rests above tho the grave of a suicide there has IM been the hour when nhen a friendly word or a little more inore substantial assistance might have sailed the life thus thrown thron away cut but the friend was not present at tle the crisi eliat career there was v as nothing to break away aljy tile the gloom boorn in which weis sh allowed up tho light of rel reason vison last sunday in the quiet little city of about ten tell miles from here a well vell known and highly respected citizen of tile the county died by ins its own land hand because ot of financial brou trou troubles blas andrew bigler was a man av who ho pi prized iced liis his word as high as ag in man and because beci use lie could not raise tile the means to satisfy ills his creditors be worried and brooded blooded over the matter till lie he must have lost his reason there bisno is no other explanation for 11 his S rash act than that lie ile was not in I 1 ilia I 1 right mind when it was done ile he was as not in his normal condition tile kind I 1 0 ol 01 man iuan to grow so desperate for he was active energetic fond of life and full of expectation liis ills domestic auzira were satisfactory and tire the only thing thine that bowed llin him doan low waa 1119 nn an inability to meet hi bila obligations ohl lations I 1 when lie promised on oil tile sunday in 10 question sir mr a and nil mrs bigler were invited to their daughters house for dinner they started but vr mr risler bigler told liis his wire wife t to go on and not wait for him as lie he would come presently resent ly lic did so arid lie returned tur nesto to tile boute liis little boy was sent out skating and there was no one at home when the deed wile was con colt sumina ted after nil all were viere pone one mr bigler wrote a letter lit in chich lie he stated that financial troubles were weighting biting john do it and that he could not live under cherti ile he said eaid further that his is inability fl to meet his creditors had caused liim him great mental anguish arid and consequent physical suffering tile the letter that lie had as good 1 a I wife sis as ever lived and that his family from the oldest to the youngest had always been good to him the causes i flat let led to the act lie contemplated tem plated were described is as financial troubles beyond which lie could soo sec nothing but poverty and degradation for his family ile ho knew they t could not blan blame le him hial so much if all they y could but know tile condition of 11 liis 15 mind lie ite did not believe they could stand enty bour i our hours ii what bat lie had stood for months mont lis sleep lie said eaid was it 0 stra stranger rizer to liis 11 is eyes and hard as lie had tried liia his sensitive spirit could not bear tile s strain fr ai n any longer this was tile the letter lit in substance and after it was written andrew bigler took look down liis his shot gun and went out tobis barn there lie had ball apparently placed the butt of tile gun tin il dinst a wall of the fie stable and biad had braced ills his breast against the muzzle A small stick etick lying by his eide when found indicates that lie had bad I 1 I 1 ile trigger with it when lie received the fatal discharge in tile the meantime ibis his wife find and daughter becoming alarmed at his I 1 long 0 ng delay instituted se aich for him tile the son ron in law found him film aft after or a while stark and tiff eliff in de death ath with the instrument of destruction byh leini across ills his body and the carewe farewell ll 11 letter by y his side an AIL inquest wa held beld next lay day by jet jens 9 jensen justice of tle peace and a jury co composed posed of oan N K whitnee Whit ncy nev A 11 II ilice ardi and Moir maimon rion bird alie verdict returned was vas that alie tile deceased came to his hii death by reavon of a gunshot eunello gu nello I 1 wound inflicted indicted by his own liand hand poor loor andrew bigler lie tried to meet liis his obligations ant and keep ilia his word mord and when would no ion longer cr permit hini him to do so BO ho he paid the only debt he be felt that eliat lie could pay the debt of oi nature and this he fie met inet before its maturity |