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Show WAS "ELECTED TO DIE." Member of Suicide Club Ende His Life In Connecticut. Whether or not aolt-mn oaths hound llornard flornaburcl of Derby, Conn., to destroy himself he took lis lira most calmly and deliberately. Ucrtiubiiccl wna forty yeara old, ho waa In Kod hi'ulth, and he had employment. em-ployment. Thero seemed to be no reus. in why ho should end hla existence. exist-ence. Ho told hla roommuto, Jostph Kstxislto, that bo was otio of a aulclilo club whose meet Inn place la In l atharlnu atrrct, New York. r "I bave been chosen," ho snld to KsiKislto. "I bave been elected to dlo. I have aworn not to try to escape my fkta at the appointed time. Indeed. It would be useless, for If 1 do not kill myself they of tho club will kill nin." Tha doomed roan went to the line of the Nnuiraturk railroad. Ho tried to throw himself under a passing locomotive, loco-motive, but It whined by him. Arising, Aris-ing, he explained to those around that be had stumbled and fallen, lie coolly waited until a fast passenger train approached then ha dived at the Hying euiilne. fell under Its whetli auu waa killed. |