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Show I Seventeen-year-old Boy Suicides. Oakland, Cal. Professor Samuel H. Christy of tho University of California Califor-nia has received word of the death of his only son, Stephen Field Christy, 17 years old, ns tho result of being run over by a train at Alta, Placer county. It Is now dellnltely known that young Christy deliberately committed com-mitted suicide. A note was found on bis body to tills effect, and was directed di-rected to his father. In It he said he was despondent nnd tired of llfo. The boy walked from lib school to the railroad track and deliberately throw himself in front of the moving train. |