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Charles Stein, Retired Mer chant of Winnetka, a Sui cide at a Rest Cure, Charles Stein, a wealthy retired mer chant of Winnetka, deliberately fired a bullet into his head while in the rear of the Hyde Park Rest Cure, 5412 Ellis avenue, yesterday morning and died an hour later at the Washington Park Hos pital, without regaining consciousness. Mr. Stein was eighty years old. He had been at the home a week. Ill health was declared to have prompted his act. Mr. Stein was at the Bills avenue insti tution for medical attention. Shortly be fore 7 o'clock he dressed and went into the rear yard. A few minutes later Mrs. Marie Parks, one of the attendants, heard the shot. When she reached the yard Stein, unconscious, was bleeding from a bullet wound over the right eye and the revolver was beside him. Stein was a brother of former Judge Philip Stein of the Superior Court, now a member of Stein, Mayer Stein, law yers. Philip Stein is in Europe. Frank J. Stein, 3909 Grand boulevard, a manu facturers’ agent with an office at 207 South State street, is a son of the victim. Lawrence Stein, head of the Lawrence M. Stein Company, 333 South Market street, is a nephew. He said his uncle had been in poor health a long time and recently left the North Shore Sanitarium.
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Chicago Examiner
Chicago, Illinois, US
Sun, May 05, 1912
Page 56
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