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Ose j A BULLET THROUGH HIS BRAIN.grs. ; -----*— --ted ‘'Poker” Smith Shouts Himself at tin*ots House ol* Sue Kirkpatrick.md A man known to the gambling fra i a ternjty as “Poker Smith attempted to be-i end his life Friday by putting ahis bullet through his head. So far as canr a be learned Smith is without friends or rst ; money. If is supposed that his home riff if he has anyi i- at Beardstown. He ies, I came to Jacksonville some five or sj\ nd weeks since, and has spent much of his an I time at the Kirkpatrick place. It ap-ott pears that he has been in destitute cirm I ; gm cumstances and of late has been veryst- despondent. During the past week he lot | lias been receiving treatment for his eyes, and his condition has been such in- that it was necessary to carry his meals 5se to his room, located on the second '00,: lioor of the Kirkpatrick house. At an he j late hour Friday morning, about ten o'clock, his meal was carried to him and he was left alone. While the remaining occupants int j of the house were eating their breaker | fast, they heard a heavy fall in theassndn-ce i room above and going up stairs found k- I Smith prostrate in front of the mirror, he j There was a ghastly wound in his head in* j from which the blood was flowing freeia ly, and near him was a 38-calibre bullit-:dog revolver with which he had attempted the act of self destruction. t*n ; Dr. Brown was summoned and upon examination found that the ball had passed through the upper part of the brain, and the doctor’s verdict was that the man could not survive. He was -till living at last accounts. Itseems to be one of those sad caseswhere a man “sows the wind and reaps the whirlwind.e-eyonm-1ey ge
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Jacksonville Weekly Illinois Courier
Jacksonville, Illinois, US
Wed, Jul 24, 1895
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