Show EPIDEMIC JF OF SUICIDE Six Persons Take T ke Their Own Lives an OTe Y o l' lt IWI a CW a l Q Chicago Sept 27 An 27 An epidemic of oC suicide 1 swept Chicago t today a Si Six persons pers look their th h own lives and and- andone one made an un unsuccessful um attempt Called to face a magistrate on n a charge of thre threatening to kill a bushness business bush busi n ness associate Jean Do Nemours a prominent contra contractor tot tol swallowed poison poi son and was wan found dead In bedI bedI bedI bed I plead cl to the time Jurisdiction of ot this tills court said Do Nemours' Nemours lawyer lawyel when the tho case CUSO was vas call called cJ State your reason reason answered ered the themo the mo magistrate The defendant Is dead said ald the attorney The Tue reason n is good and I have hae ha e lost Jurisdiction commented the Judge De Do Nemours l hart had lost heavily on oui the board of trade recently He I is said uld to have ha been hard pressed too b by a combination of powerful business riv rl als RIM These l ea Reasons Reasons' on added to his fear of or time the outcome of or the time ca case o against him are aro believed to have caused the suicide Worried 1 caH c his hll wife had hall just been taken tf to thc hue ho hospital for tor a serious operation Frank Franl Patterson blew out his brains With sith a revolver Harry hanged himself in the time stable of a nei neighbor because lie ho could not refrain from tho tile use of liquor Leon and andi I Ford ord brothers brother waiters niters In In the Auditorium dining dining- room were asphyxiated b by gas as In iii their bedroom Tile The brothers were Greeks an and arc are SUrpo supposed ed to have O ended elde their lives from flom homesickness Leslie Saunders also sought ou ht death by asphyxiatiOn n The odor of or gas es escaping CS' CS ca- ca calling caping from Crom his room was wa noticed and help came camo In iii time to save sa his life lire He was out of work and eJ despondent despondent- Despondent lIt because e of or he her mothers mother's recent lecent death Amelia Diehl Diehi blew the thc top nf ut her het head off arc with a ii u shot gun tonight night I p |