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Show deceased, and was living at his heme i with his sister, Mi."s Mae Whitby. T! c family i.s highly respected in this city. ALPINE MAN SUICIDES; SHOOTS INTO BREAST American Fork, D?e. n. Walter "Whitby, an eighteen-) car-old boy of Alpine, shot himself last1 night." at nb:ut S o'clock, through the breast, with a ..12-calibro revolver, dying al-.rnosi al-.rnosi Instantly Whether the shooting shoot-ing was accidental or with suicidal Intent will probably never be known. The joun? man had been drinking c'der and was In an intoxicated condition, con-dition, and one of the other boys had taken him home, against his will, and after the ether boy bad left young V.illby gel the gun and started afler him, chased him down town and tired four shobs after him. Another young man took Whitby in chaige an) started start-ed to nke him heme ngain, and had gone but a short distance when the fa'al shot was fired. The young man who was with him says that ho could not tell bow it was done, as th. first he knew e.f the act was when he heard the sb t. and he did not know whether Whitby b;ul accidentally shot hlnisell waile putting the gun In his pocket or had deliberately shot him self. It is the suppo-HIon that It was dono with suicidal intent, as Whitby hud made the remark to one of the boys that if he did not go down to the store with him be would kill bi n self. The' young man was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Whitby, both j |