Show despondency LEADS I 1 TO GRAVE I 1 last rast saturday noon at tho the time tima most people wi wro wiro ro sitting at kho the r noonday noon day meal orin din clin palmer a cling carpenter of this city son sont a bullok bullet through his ills heart and foil fell dead on tuo floor of madam gregorys resort in the old wilcox place in tho the western pal pai t of town palmor palmer who was tw twenty enty four years of ago age had boon beon despondent for some days and anti arrived nt at tho tile gregory place shortly before noon ho ile sent one of the tile inmates to get ct him film a dianic and while sho she was out nf of the room he lie committed the rash act the landlady telephoned the authorities and sheriff koltor kolter and marshal bryner hurried to the place and made an examination near where palmer lay they found a 38 calibre revolver with one chamber hrad those in we house report that palmer never spoke nf after ter iio lie fired the shot and expired almost instantly ii ili one of the tile dead mans pockets ohp up off officers leers found a note in his own handwriting reading as fol follows loAs goodbye ma ala and austin I 1 have tried my best to be happy and try to live but it is better for me to die than to do like I 1 have been doing I 1 never will aill bo be happy for 3 a ou know the reason owes ma wo this gun belongs to vern whitmore OLIN ma ala dont worry about me for I 1 am better off all orin olin clin palmer was a son of mrs urs mary palmer a widow and a brother to austin palmer and was the sole support of ll ire lle e mother he was a carpenter and wa employed by lars ehnderson Gh Gi he had bad the reputation of being a good work meir merr and was usually employed just w wa at was troubling him the public will probably never know but it is known that ho had bad been de despondent spon dent for or some das prior to the day of his death faday even evenly lg ho he went to vern whitmore and borrowed tin th revolver with which he took his life saying he wanted to kill somo some cats which were annoe anno ing him at night justice middleton acting as coroner paneled em sam miles J W sterling and N IL S robinett and after viewing the body at the gregory resort adjourned to the court house where witnesses were examined after hearing the testimony obtainable the jury returned a fsr ver 4 diet of suicide I 1 the body N was as turned over to tingley I 1 pace who buried it at sunday afternoon oliver J harmon conducting the services which were held at the home of lawrence whitmore tho the kentucky liquor place of bu business siness was broken into sunday night and about 1300 in money a colts SS 38 revolver and a few bottles of whiskey taken the thieves were unusually bold as they turned the trick sometime between P and 10 oo lock when thero must have been nume numerous roas people pas passing pasing ing entrance to tho the store was accomplished by breaking a pane of glass in the front door and then reaching in and turning the lock there is no clue to the thieves while coasting tuesday little johnny fitzgerald was run over fand f 1 suffered several oat t 51 |