Show SLAYER DIES BY OWN HANOI HA HAMan Man Who Shot Woman and Burned Cabin Cuts Wrists AUGUSTA Me Ie Sept 15 b Harry A A. Kirby In Jail here hero since I last May charged with the tho murder mur mur- murder murder der of Miss lIst Ada Hayward ash 8 com corn committed suicide Monday by slash slash- slashIng slashing Ing his wrist with a razor blade On tho the night of ot May 19 Mrs Emma Towns was a rescued from front her burning cottage on tho the shore of or Lake Maranacook In Win Win- In and was found to be suf suf- suffering bring fering from two bullet wounds She told the authorities that aman a aman aman man had shot her set fire to the I cottage and abducted her niece I Miss lIst Hayward Four Pour days later I Miss alias body bod was vas discovered dis dIS- dIScovered covered In a 0 cottage which Kirby I II I had occupied and on May 20 25 I j Kirby was arrested at Newbury NewburyPort NewburyPort Port P rt Mass in his cottage was found a large amount of loot from I the burned cottage Kirby hUrby left a n. letter addressed to I High Sheriff Henry F r CummIngs of or Kennebec county In which he said ail I I 1 have thought the mailer matter over and have decided to sacrifice my life lLe to the state of Maine rather than plead guilty to a I brutal and vicious cLous crime of or which I am not wholly guilty If It my wife does not claim my I body I should like to have haw you surrender the same to the now Bow j I doln loin college medical school for purposes of study stud It if they care to claim it It County authorities were unable to explain how Kirby I obtained the razor blade with which he ended his life |