Show double tragedy 11 ith a mystery STANDARD specials P F CAr chronicle service ga jan 2 21 21 L on saturday night col GUB gus bates a retired lawyer of wealth living at his country home in this county ahot lot himself through the forehead there was but one spectator to the deed the victims victim lo son dr horace bates the ball entered the center of aho ho forehead and lodged lod sedat at the base h me of the brain dr bates story was that bis his father bad had packed tl up the weapon for the purpose of cleaning and loading it be he pointed the barrel toward his face and began snapping enapp inn ito it not dreaming lre amini that a load was in any of the chamber chambers noticing this his hn horace paid said id d mt do that lather father it might geoff 11 just as the remark was made col CZI bates again pressed the trigger and thia this time a terrific report followed and the unfortunate man fell to the floor it was first thought be lie was dead but iu in a short time col bates allows signs of consciousness and lived until I 1 tonight to night when he died the mystery surrounding the shooting baa has been heightened by the conduct of the dead mans eon son who now lies d dead ead from a self indicted wound which be he administered about 2 this morning morn lug at that hour he went out of the house and I 1 in a a few moments came back with his bands hands en cn bis his side and said to dr lindaay lindsay johnson john son who was attending bis ills father that he bad had tried to hit the heart but the ball entered the tile side tu to the left of the heart ills his only explanation was that be he was in ta trouble an aal I 1 he wanted to din die he begged the tile doctor to give him something to end hia his life an ant t without riving giving any oi atlon of tte the double tragedy ho he tell fell olt off into a comatose state and died tonight to night there are many rumors as to the cause of this tragedy |