Show PRESiDENT Of NA TONAl NATIONAL KIllS IN N NEV N VOR C TY I I I II Harry Darry C of Baseball Fame Puts a Bullet Through His Head Hying at atan atan an Early Hour Dour Today I Not No 1 York July Harn C lIam president of the tho National League of baseball clubs died I at aL a rn m today after himself through tIme head In his room at the New cw York Athletic club last night Although a bullet from his re revolver volver passed through hi his head severing both optic nerves antI anil causing blindness AIm lr Pulliam lIved drom J O last night until this thin morning lie Ho unconscious oon after aCter the shooting was I I Id ed rind and WM sas unable to make mak an any state tnt I I ment as to his reason for committing suicide It is attributed to I Mr Ir was In his office yes yesterday es attending to the business or of orthe tIme the league and went to his room at atthe time the Athletic Club last At r a signal from Crom the tele telephone phone In his room was thrown upon the switchboard In the club rooms The operator responded but rAcel Ing no call sent a messenger to as ascertain certain time tho trouble Mm l Pulliam was found lying on the floor dressed only in hIs and with a bullet wound through his head The tele telephone phone receIver apparently had been off Its hook book wh when n ho he fell A revolver lay on the floor Joor near his I head Time The clubs climbs physician was sum summoned but there was little lie he could I Ido do 10 to relieve his patient and amid it Il was evident that death would ensue within I a short A coroner attempted to obtaIn a I statement from the dying man but wi It avail vall To all questions as to how h lie was shot Mr 11 who was then In a semiconscious replied that lie he lid did not understand and asked lie He soon became unconscious but a little but complained that his head hend ached an and asked the attend to lo rub It No note noto or other ox of the suicide was found COund In his room time the night Mr Pulliam I lingered In a som condition of his Imis ILl in git e and anI were vere of the affair last night President health and v his nervous nerous haul been so poor for Cor se soy emal months as to cause alarm among his After tile lie spring meelIn In lag of tho lie National League In February ary he was vas granted grantell an leave leae of absence and nd spent several months relatives In Tennessee I and Florida He returned to his hlf dut I hes a month ago aso and seemed to tobe tobe be b by his Ion long rest His health soon be began n to give gle way agaIn and it Il Is reported that ho recently spout spent a week In II a sanitarium hum ium humA A report was wn current today that Mr wrote his imis resignation as pros pres presIdent Ident blent of If the league shooting himself but this could not be con confirmed I firmed Mr Ir Pulliam was horn In I IKy Ky 39 years ago arab and was success ly reporter and city editor of the Commercial president of time the baseball club secretary I amil treasurer uror of time club amid aull of time the National Longue to which office onIce ho he was elected In 1902 I I death marls marks the lof I of one Of time the most interesting figures figuro of baseball Imbued d with the Idea that the complete success of oC base baseball baseball ball rested on honesty he often orten found himself opposed by some Momo o of his asso I elates Worry over his With the tho leagues leaders brought on n a nor otis breakdown last winter and his temporary retirement Ho He resumed his active labors about n a month ago Mr lr Pulliam will 1111 probably be buried In As chief executive of oC the leading baseball organization of the count Mr Ir course courso s brought him Into sharp conflict with the tho club proprietors Some Som of times s latter particularly opposed as excessively Hively arbitrary the presidents In InI instructions I to lo umpires immediately at af to teu lie he slImed assumed office Ito to deal beat severe with cases or of rowdy base bas basI I ball bail ballA bailA A of con controversies bore I hard on tin th presidents tm tern and amid at the In last meet lug Ing In Chicago In mry r hue he show eu 1 signs of a breakdown Pullam wanted to make public the names or of orthe the who lie he said tried to bribe thin umpires In the last York championship same game Ho He had be conic como imbued with time tho Idea that the tho league magnates were him rind that unless the o of the tho thoI I alleged bribers were wre made public the tho sport of baseball was loomed doomed During tIme tho banquet which l the directors meeting Pulliam sud denly rose and began besan n a bitter tIrade against the tho league officials Ho He wn wa quieted for the time and his frion J i attained for him an indefinite leave of absence Pulliam heft w without hat or coat and next ed In St Jouk whore no his to a young woman Ie i that city Garry Gamy 1 him to St S1 Louis and tool took him south where here he mad what was believed d to tobe tobe be n a full recovery of his h health alth When resumed his hIE active duties as ac head of the national I league about Il a month ago ho he showed no n signs of his long illness and friends congratulated him on his recovery |