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Show PROMINENT -MAN KILLS-HIMSELF New York, Sopt. 2. Daniel E. Garrison, Gar-rison, jr., of St. Louis, vice president of the Corrugated Metal company of that city, was found dead today in his room at the Waldorf-Astoria with a bullet wound through his head. Tho hotel people say that he committed suicide. Mr. Garrison arrived here yestor-day yestor-day with his father, who is president of tho company, and his son, Daniel E. Garrison. He was seen alive about 10 o'clock last night, when he went to his room. This morning one of the employes of the hotel heard a shot in Mr. Garrison's room and found tho occupant dead. The suicide was 42 years old and resided In St. Louis. Mr. Garrison was to have been married mar-ried here in October to Miss Mary Williams of New York, who is at present pres-ent at Rye Beach, N. H. Two letters lav beside him. In ono he told his father that he would rather die than suffer from kidney trouble, and that, It would be unjust to his fiancee to marry her In his present state of health. The other letter was written by the girl ho expected ex-pected to marry and urged him to "cheer up," and .think of "tho better bet-ter days to come.'' no |