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Show YOUNG MAN ENDS LIFE WITH PISTOL With apparently no motive for the act, Henry Clay Terry, son of Mr. and Mrs. Gcoige P Terry, committed suicide sui-cide at his home, 3225 Wyoming ave-nuo, ave-nuo, last evening by 6hootlng himself in the head. Death was instantaneous, the bullet entering the middle of tho forehead and penetrating the brain. The young man's relatives wore given no Intimation that he contemplated contem-plated self-destruction, thero having been nothing in his actions which would Indlcato a derangement of the mind He was alone In the room at tho time of tho shooting, bout 7:20 o'clock the mother, who was in tho next room, heard a shot and going Into the room foun 1 her son lying on tlie floor with blood strpninln?r from the bullet wound In his forehead. The revolver was still held in th right hand. The revolver rscd by Terry to end his life was a .3S caliber Iver Johnsoa, belonging to his father. There were two loaded cartridges and the empty shell In the weapon. The sheriff's office of-fice was notified ot tho suicide and j Deputy Sheriffs Frank Ludwlg and I Joe Crompton made an Investigation ! of the case. The learned that the young man had been of a quiet, unassuming un-assuming nature and was very fond of children. He rn3do few friends oxcont among those much younger than himself him-self The parents are absolutely at a loss to determine any motivo for his act. The doccased was born at Nauvoo, 111., on August 19, 1SSS, being therefore there-fore 23 years of age. The remains wero removed to the Lindqulst undertaking under-taking rooms. 00 |