Show WEALTHY MAN SHOT HIMSELF family was celebrating his birthday when the deed was committed new york feb 4 charles I 1 steel a wealthy retired business man of ben so ahurst L I 1 has shot himself and probably will die steel two grown daughters and his aged mother were in the midst of a dinner at home this being his birthday when a process server called him to the door and delivered a summons steel thanked the server conducted him to the door and returning to the dining room asked to be excused a moment with the summons unopened in his hand he went upstairs to his room A moment later the people at the table heard a shot and rushing upstairs found steel shob through the breast he said he had fired the pistol and offered no explanation when the daughters and aged mother realized what had happened they were almost crazed with grief |