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Shortages are also reported in other direction*, but the total amouut of hi* de-liiif) ueucifs is not yet definitely known, it is generally believed in Williams that the uuexpecteu presence of the postal oilidals wrought Mr. Ilrown up to such a pitch that, in a (it of desperation and despair, he determined to take his life rather than face tin; possibilities that might result from his own arts. The manner of hit* death would seem to indicate that he enacted the frightful tragedy with coolness and deliDerauoa —a thing the rational mind can hardly conceive to he possible. Ills taking the gun from its place in the office to tbe freight room, then returning and going on with Id* business for a few minutes; his subsequent return to the freightroom where he loaded both barrels of the gun with dUCk*shot shslls; takingotf his Test ami hat und laying them on a table; sitting down on a box and placing the mu/./le of the gun against the nipple of the lett breast; pressing me trigger with the strip of a pine board which he held in his right hand all go to show great deliberation and nerve in the execution of the terrible deed he had resolved upon. It hardly seems possible that a well-balanced mind could conceive, let alone execute, such an act as this. Hut then ’tis said “that e mseience makes cowards ot us all/’ami when the conscience connot rest the man Is at war with himself. The bullltings of a cold and cheerless world may worry and annoy, but when that “bright monitor within” Is at ease the storms of envy and the poisoned arrows of malice cannot kill.*-----— If Ili'itUf n masts l kt.mn in I tnKiu.nu
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Dubuque Times
Dubuque, Iowa, US
Sat, May 12, 1883
Page 4
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