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Show IFE BELIEVES O'BRIEN MEANT TO SHOOT HER Suicide War Hero Suffered Wrecked Nervous Pnuilih. rium, Doctor Says j I.OS ANCKLKS. Cal . Oec. 18. ' j Lieutenant Pat O'Brien, officer of the ' royal flying corps during the world war. who according to a police report, J committed suicide by shooting himself at a hotel here last night, wa suffering suf-fering fm n "wrecked nerous eriiiTT- ibrlum." according to Dr. Waltir Sea-j Sea-j ger, his friend and phyleli-i. Dr. Selger said Lieutenant O'Brien j I probably had been suffering from the result of his experiences during rhe ! war. The widow who. it is said, formerly j was Virginia Dale, a newspaper wo-man wo-man of Washington r. c.. was prostrated pros-trated tonight In a room in the I'amc j hotel where her husband killed hlm-1 hlm-1 self. ' Through a close friend. Mrs. Sarah! I Ottls of Springfield, III., .'trs O'Brien I expressed the opinion that her hus-i I band had been mentally unbalanced and that he bad planned to kill her. had she responded to his telephonic request fp'r her to meet him last night. Mrs. ottis said Mr O'Brien's belief be-lief that she narrowly escaped death at her husband's hands was based on the facts that she was not mentioned in ;i message, unofficially term el a will, that was found; and that none of aj .series of mementos the aviator had! laid out, lab. led, on his bed. bore her name Although it was understood here O'Brien had only one brother, Me: -j win O'Brien of Sun Francisco, tho doc-: ument unofficially termed a will was addressed "To Brother Elmer". It follows: "Please see that Clara Clegg. n.y Sister, gets $1000 from mv farm In Indiana, In-diana, as I owe It to her. After you take what you have coming to you. I see that mother gots all the rest (Slgn. d) "PAT O'J'.BIUN " Hi sister. Mrs. Clcgn. came here recently from Momeme m. HSs brother BSerWln Is expected here soon J from San Francisco to assume charge I of the body and Its removal to Mo-J mence for burial. There will bo no InqUCSt, tffe tor- om r having announced he was con- luted the aviator killed nlmsclf. |