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!d3trticIBIns.or\cidy.;eh»-.11IsK.u10If?3%ieifLS* _IISdie?f10:hKCIASOUK.(isthwfctlI]ATTEMPTED SUICIDE—MAN MISS-I NO—IN A WELL.Roanoke* Va„ Seilt;, 16.—Yesterday evening at n late hour at his home In West Roanoke, Ballard Huddleston, a painter by trade, was shot over the heart with a SS-calibre revolver. The Injured man Is In such condition as to preclude any just vet diet 111 the matter, but as lie has once attempted to ... take his own life, it Is the opinion of! y the police authorities that there la no doubt as to his being responsible for his present sufferings, III? wife, who! ir ts now on the verge of hysterics, had fi] been-away In tin afternoon and did not return until late, when she found the doors all locked and iid one at home. AbouL this time Mrs. Huddleston heard a cry and n shat, but she does not remember which came itrst. After the cry her husband came running towards the house, oscelalining that ihe had been shot, lie was looking back and holding his hand over the spot just above his hr art. Notwithstanding the fact that Huddleston was able to walk to the house, he was suffering greatly, and the doctors think hts condition very serious.Every Indication points to the fact that the Unfortunate man himself Inflicted the wound, Ills own pistol was found In his pocket with one chamber empty and it had the appearance of having been recently discharged. Huddleston’s shirt was also burned, which is regarded as an hid Ira Hon that the Pistol had been placed close to his h breast. The young man is still under I 30 years of ago. and it In alleged that his one falling Is Intemperance,\vtlecoitcStn;Aw 11 nIThhtlGPn
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Norfolk Virginian Pilot
Norfolk, Virginia, US
Sun, Sep 17, 1899
Page 14
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