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Show opiei Farmer Sets Fire to His Clothes and Then Shoots Himself St. Joseph, Mo., Doc. 23. Sufforin? with the delusion that ho Was pursued pur-sued by Ku-Klux JKlan whitecaps for a crimo of"5whlchhp,vwas innocent, Henry Ford, a haciielor and fanner, committed sulcldo by shooting himself him-self through tho heart with a shotgun shot-gun at his homo nerir Dearborn yes-tcrrtaV yes-tcrrtaV . Before shooting himself Ford saturated satu-rated bis clothing with kerosene and touched a match to 'It In an effort lo burn hlmseir aid Tils' home. His body was discovered by blames Sherwood, who lives half a mile away and who saw smoke coming from tho two-room pottage in which Ford 'lived. He hastened has-tened to the burning houso and foun 1 Ford dead, with his head, and right leg burned to a crisp. |