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Show SUICIDE BELIEVED HIS USEFULNESS HAD ENDED New York, Jan. 20. Thomas Hutch-ins, Hutch-ins, the aged man who committed suicide sui-cide b- shooting on thp steps of a police po-lice station here last night, after having hav-ing made preparations for the cremation crema-tion of his body, was an advocate of Dr Osier's theory that man's usefulness useful-ness ends when lie Is sixty years old. This information was given by the dead -man's sons, Herbert, who was seen at his apartment curly today. According Ac-cording to the son, Hutchlns had frequently fre-quently remarked that old men were only encunibernnces and should end their lives., The old man had been in poor health' of late anil for the last six I months had often spoken of taking his life. 1 Hutchlns was formerly a wholesale grain merchant but failed in business about 15 years ago. The son Herbert is' a contractor and builder. |