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Show Death Was His Choice California youth 'Decided Jfot to Li-Vc 'Without Sbocethcart. When He Learned HU JTuit Wcu Uopeles-t. He Shot Himself In Home of Girl He Lo-Oed. For four liUloom bonis- Itoilviislu Hewitt." n jouiiK lrl of Hollywood, Cni, watched her lejeited lox ci blooding blood-ing to death on her f tout porch, nays the Los Aiigelos Times She kept n solitary, axvful vlgli ly his side until she s.n; lilm die a sulelde'H di'iith just before the doctors on mo It xmis u pitiful ease of 'xvlioto lovo is a k.iiiio for tltree," mid John I'errln, sue louvn tub mint op iiKit i.oxT:n LIMP IN 1I1H C1IU11. n joiiiii: Hlxersldo fruit mini, tlropped out of tlie waiiie by sending n liullct craslilug Into his brain Miss Hewitt is mi nttriietlxu )ouug Rlrl, mid l'enlu hud loxed her to desperation des-peration for txo xeurs. Itut there was iinothcr .xounu' man in the ease. Perrln met the lrl In I.os Angeles aad told her that he xvould kill himself rather thnn llxe xvlttiout her. She xvns afruid he xxould carry out, his threat. Sho kept him xxlth lier by girlish xvlles tq proxent, If she could, this n xx fill tiugedy. I She left lilm Just lone oiiougk to go in the house to get a glass of xvater came liaol; to ilnd li!m dying from n ' pistol shot DiuliiK the last nprlcot season Miss Hexxltt and her xxidowed mother went to Ventura to xvork at tho packing houses. Perrln came here to see them, and, litidtng them gone, rushed off to Ventura after them. Again lie bogged the girl to marry him, and ngiiln sho refused. The mother. moth-er. It seems, favored tho other young uinn In the case. In tho desperation of utter discouragement discour-agement I'errln vowed ho xvould kill himself. Tho frightened girl turned the subject mid asked him to go out to the Hollywood ranch xxlth her nest day. (irntcful as n dog for a caress, the unhappy young felloxv xvas only too eager to accept. Tim Hewitts haxo n little place on tlie corner of Plummer and Santa Monica Mo-nica inclines. There xmis no one else nt tlie house, and they sat together for a long time on the front porch. lVirlu said nothing more of his loxe. It xx as utuleistood that tho answer xx-ns lln.il He (.coined so despondent and dlsheaiteued that tho girl'H henit xvent out to him In pity She went Into the house to get lilm a glass of x liter It must haxo come over him In all its bitterness Unit Just as she then rose and left him Just so some day sho xvould fade out of his life forever. And ho knew something better than water for xx hat ailed him. The ghl heard a shot and rushed out to tlnd tho body of her lover sloughed doxvn limp In Ids chair. Tho pistol was still smoking In his hand, and a dark little eurrent xvas beginning to trlcklo, trickle, trickle, doxvn over tho smooth xvhlto of ids forehead. She rnn frantically lulo tho back yard and called an old soldier xvho was xvorklng thero and told him to run as fast as he could for doctors. Bomehoxv ho didn't get to them In time. i The ghl sat there hour after hour, brooding oxer tho dying man, trying to get him to speak to her, trying to get some sign of life from him, doing xvhnt little things sho could think of to do for him. Finally her mother and sisters camo out from toxvn, Innocent of nil knowledge knowl-edge of xvhat had happened. They wore horrified to find tho man dying thoro on the po'rch. At last tho doctors came. Just as thoy arrived the young man died. It was found that he had shot him-slf him-slf through the temple xvith a 82 caliber cali-ber revolver. |