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Show COMMITS SUICIDE TO END SUFFERING Los Angeles, Cal., Jan. 4. R. S. Crorabie. aged 45. wealthy, head of the Crombie & Company Wholesale Flour and Wheat company, shot himself him-self through the heart in his room at the Union League club today. According to those who knew him, Cromblt for years has fled from an illness that threatened to claim him. Almost every part of the world has been visited in his quest for health and about once a year he has come to Los Angeles to settle the affairs of his firm. He came on one of these trips Christmas day from Orange. N. J., where his wife is now living, and on December 2G became the guest of H. D. Schofielrl, vice president of the Crombie company, at the Union League club. He left several letters let-ters one ol which was addressed to his wife at 413 Center street, Orange, Or-ange, N. J. |