North Carolina Newspapers

Trout Fishing Season Closes September 1st 1 Mr. Harrison Baker, county game! -.\ arden, announces the closing ot? ' e trout fishing season on September 1st, and insists that anyone en gaging in the sport after that date ; be prosecuted. The open season :o/ squirrel nun ting begins Septem-j ; 15th. The game commission is; -ging a strict enforcement of bothj and game laws ami the warden! ges that every or.e who expects toi .gage in either .-port, supply them-j -elves with the necessary licenses and! -.re the possibility of paying fines' <*!":! court costs. Mi . Laker reports the placing ?f! about 75,000 brook trout of finger-} size in the waters of Watauga w ornty during the month of August and says they are growing nicely. The warden respectfully asks the ,? .sople of the county to co-operate Kv:th him and his deputies in their efforts to protect these fish, espe-; '.rally in view of the fact that good ; fishing likely draws more tourists to :he mountains than any other one; at traction. ' LIQUOR LEADS LAW VIOLATIONS IN STATE laloigh, Aug. 24?Only three ] cases of first degree murder. 277: for second degree murder and 147. for manslaughter, not one for firstroe burglary. 28 for rape and 21! for arson were tried in the superior} courts in the 100 counties of North Carolina, of the total of 10,810 ! : : eases tried during the fall i spring terms of court in .1928} 1929, according to reports col-j ...J ! 4.-1.-.-4. J . a-u kTtu unmiaCea in mc wl'.ce 01: Attorney General D. G. Brummitt. The reports show that 10,422 white people, (>,321 negroes, 65 In-j 'axis and two corporations composed the total number, of which 15,8181 males, 0*36 females and two <. >: notations. Of the total 16,810 j tried, 11,946 were convicted, i.8SS| ?VT>re acquitted. cases of 2,883 were; ml prossed and 93 were otherwise | lisposed of. Violations of the liquor laws leau v.be list with 5,307 cases, almost one-; third of the total cases tried, and i almost twice the number in the next! richest classification, larceny and j eeeiving, with 2,874 eases. I ^ MAKES MAIDEN SPEECH iViikesboro correspondence Win-1 >n-Sa1em .Journal: A crowded court' hopse here on Saturday heard Fax- j t i.*: II. Linney of Boone, son of an i ciotpient father, in his maiden speech! orfovo a jury. The young man's j argument was characterized by the! absence of verbal pyrotechnics and was consiberd altogether a forceful | and logical presentation. An almost! life-size bust portrait of Mr. Linrey's grandfather, the late Congressman R. Z. Linney, hangs in the courthouse here. In this same temple ol justice the young-- lawyer's noted father, the late District Attorney Frank A. Linney, won some of ills most renowned legal battles. )t was in the defense of W. M. Sparks and his three sons, Guilford, >0, Irwin, J.S, and Hazel. 15, that Afr. Linney appeared with former Assistant District Attorney Ralph Bingham, a member of the same firm. The case consumed nearly a whole day in its trial, the quartet being charged with manufacturing liquor. r. The, inry convicted, but Judge Hayes dealt out punishment in merciful measure. The father and oldest son were put upon prohation for a period of three years; Irwin, the 18year-old youth, was sent to the Chi'icothe, Ohio, correctional school for a period of thirteen months, and Hazel, 15-year-old, bright-eyed boy, goes to the Federal Boys* school at "Washington, D. C.. for a like period of time. TAX ON ORDER-TAKERS . Chapter 309, Public-Local and i Plicate Laws, session of 1S29, entitled, "An Act to allow the county commissioners of Watauga county to collect privilege'tax on order takers," provides: Section 1. That every person engaged in .the business of canvassing, or acting in the capacity of house-tohdnse order-takers from samples selling at retail or wholesale prices, or offering for sale such goods as men's "wearing apparel, ladies' wearing apparel, shoes, dry goods, tobaccos, jewelry, enlarging pictures, drugs and patent medicines, shall apply fo. and obtain license from the county commissioners of Watauga county for the privilege of engaging in such a business as an order-taker or house-to-house canvasser and shall Pay for such license fifty dollars. -v ccc. That cities and towns may levy a license tax not in excess of the tax levied by the county. 5ec. 3. That this act shall not iii apply to merchants in the county of A'atauga taking orders for groceries or other goods. Sec. 4. That this act shall be in foice and effect from and after its, "ratification. V' Katitied this 13th dav oi A A. D. 1929. ...V"- i- * A-". A Non-Partisan Ne BOONE, short Items of general news; . i Some of the Oatstanding Happenings j of Past Week, Gathered From r.vcryvhere, Condensed For The Busy Re.ader Washington, Aug. 24?Figures announced today hy the American Motorists Association disclosed that o,220,000 new passenger automobiles were purchased in the 4S states in 1028. During the same period 2.212,000 old cars were scrapped. New York, with 201,200 new cars, headed the list. Pennsylvania with 222,600, and Ohio, with 215,000 were second and third. Raleigh. Aug. 27?Cot George K. Freeman of Goldsboro. was elected; state commander, and Mrs. R. S. Mc-I Geachey, Kir.ston, the auxiliary pres-j idcniiy.. Winston-Salem the 1920; convention, and the eleventh an- j nual convention of -the American j Legion adjourned this afternoon, i Tho fitrht ?u:- 4-1--! - ..V. ..nnv iwi bHC icauciollll' VI bllC I legion was close until the hill country was reached and Mr. Freeman made it a runaway over Dr. H. A. Newell. Marion, N\ C., Aug. 124?End of the strike at the Clinchfield mills here loomed tonight after Judge N. A. Tnwnsend announced thai the arbitration hoard had itself clrawn up and agreed to a set of articles! covering every point in dispute. This I is being carried before the strikersin executive session, and. if approval! e<\. will mean the end of the trouble] at the Clinchfield village. It is understood that mill and union workers have each made heavy conces-j sions in ordan agreemen11 which is reported to include a 55-] hour week and a slight increase in I pay to compensate for the loss ot J time. The strike at the Clinchfield textile mill has been ir. progress for J several weeks. Unrest and disorder is spreading) through the Near East following fouri days of bloody fighting between Jews! and Arabs in Palestine. Outbursts of, religions and racial hatred are reported in trans-Jordania. Beirut advices said French troops, have been \ dispatched to protect the Jewish j quarters of Damascus. Twenty Lhou-j sar.d Beirut Arabs paraded in sym-( parity with Palestine Moslems. The rioting extends to all Judea, part of! Emek and Galilee. Possibility of ccs-: satiqn of warfare is seen in an ap- j peal to Grand Mufti, Moslem roli-' gious head, urging Arabs l?> stop the j outbreaks. Assaults continue in Je-i rusalem, but British military appear \ to have a jvntp ,);1 the situation. The Hague, Aug. 28?Agreement in principle on the British share of reparations, which had blocked adoption of the Young plan for three weeks, was reached just after midnight by the six powers who called the conference. Details of the agreement were given out by the British delegation. The French placed a slightly different interpretation on them hut it was understood that in the main the agreement gave ihe British substantially 70 per cent of their demand in money while other concessions were made to them on deliveries in kind. The agreement was a compromise and will probably save the Hague conference. Jerusalem, Ayg. 24.?A state' of I emergency was proclaimed to exist over all Palestine tonight with clashes between Arabs and Jews spreading from the point of origin in Jerusalem and with a death list of more j than 50 already recorded. Word that j British warships and troops were en j route to supplement the police forces] was received with great joy. The j calm in Jerusalem this morning after) two days rioting in the streets was j only temporary and at 6 o'clock to-j night the disorders were in full blast again. Jewish sources estimated the number of Jewish dead at 30 with 35 others gravely wounded and estimates of the Arab losses much earlier had been 17 killed with others likely to die. The injured numbered more than 200. Jewish leaders have appealed to their race to co-operate with the British administration in restoring order. New York. Aug. 25?The New York Times tomorrow will say that. Governor Roosevelt will be a candidate for re-election next year ard that the Democratic state organization is preparing to make a vigorous campaign to re-elect him and Lieutenant Governor Herbert H. Lehman Close friends of the governor, the newspaper will say, expressed themselves to that effect today in answer to reports which were said; to have been put in circulation up-; state that Governor Roosevelt's j health would not permit him to run again and that Mr. I-ehman would j head the next Democratic state ticket. A close friend of the governor will be quoted' as saying that Mr. Roosevelt, except for his lameness, heen it better general health- I jBttj. ?: JGA :wspaper, Devoted to the WATAUGA COUNTY. NORTH C A Pfilinftr Purifon ? ?w W MktVJ X^AVXiail Organization Formed Practically the entire membership of the Boone Civitan Club journeyed; over to West Jefferson last Thursday j evening for a meeting: of the club; with citizens of Ashe county looking to the organization of a Ci vitas club there. The meeting was held in the dining room of the Colonial Hotel, and notwithstanding the heavy rain-, storm just prior to the ho-ir ??f meet-1 ing, a score or more Ashe county citizens were present. The gathering was presided over by C. P. Uagamai:, president of the local club, and music was rendered by Misses Edith Knight and Ruth Coffey, who were introduced as the "sweethearts of the Boone Civitan Club." Talks were made by J. P. Moore. I. G. Greer and others from the local club, following which Arthur Cundy of Oklahoma City, field representative of Civitan international, delivered an enthusiastic address on what Civitan stands for. At the close of this talk, a motion was made and carried to oriraniyp tb? T r Seegraves and W. G. Cole were elected president and secretary, respectively. and reports coming for the neighboring: county are to the effect Lhat twenty-eight members have affiliated themselves with the club. The tentative date for presenting the charter to the new organization has been set for Sept. 12. however, this may be changed to a later date. The local club will meet today at 12:45 at the Daniel Boone hotel A full attendance of the momTtrship is requested. Patrol Has Busy Month in State A tdtfil of !\202 ca:v with improper lights were repaired as a result of activities of the state highway patrol during July, according to the report issued in Raleigh Friday by Capt. Charles D. Farmer. This figure is included fn the 12,180 who were stopped for traffic violations. Other activities of the patrol included putting 1ST cars in garages Until their owners purchased license pmces mr tnem, and seeing that ISO owners with improper license plates on their cars secured the proper kind. There were TOT trucks with improper license plates and the sanie number with no tags, and 17 trailers with ironroner plates which also were required to purchase the proper license plates. A total of 87 arrests were made, fines in these cases aggregating $1,142, costs and road sentences 2-5 months. The arrests included 27 drunken drivers. There were 447 motorists aided on the road, patrolmen spending: 6,993 hours on duty, and traveling S5,70G miles in the performance of their duties. Ten stolen automobiles were recovered, and 109 overloaded trucks stopped. ?. WATAUGA'S DIVORCES 13.9 PER CENT. OF MARRIAGES Statistics issued by. the United States bureau of the census and compiled and amplified for the News and Observer by the Newspaper Feature bureau, shows that during the year now reported, there were 22,204 marriages and 1.642 divorces in the state of North Carolina. The per-3 eentage of divorces to marriages in the state is 7.4, while the percentage of divorces in Watauga county is 13.1), there being 72 marriages and 10 divorces. The state rate is much lower than that for the United States, in which marriages numbered 1,201,053 and divorces 192,037. or 16 divorcse for every hundred marriages. The highest percentage of divorce in the state, 50?0, is in Scotland county. The lowest, 0.3, is reported from Camden county.. YOUNT FAMILY HAS REUNION A reunion of the Yount family was held at the home of Rev. J. A. Yount, pastor of the Lutheran church here, on August 19th. The affair was a very pleasant one, about one hundred people gathering- to take part in the happy event. A fewwords of introduction were spoken hy Rev. Mr. Yount, and a very pleasing and inspiring respose was made hy the Rev. Carroll Yount and Dr. \V_ A. Lutz. And 0, what a feast of good things to satisfy the inner man, besides the renewing of acquaintances and making newfriends A good time was had by all present, many of whom had never visited Boone before. It Did Not Work Lorain, 0., Aug. 28?-Jos. Shepkowski, 15, constructed a home made parachute in an endeavor to emulate a parachute jumper. He made a leap from a tree. The parachute did not work, aau ulo ?.... -,vas. brthcp. ( Best Interests of Nor^ a AROLIIN A. THURSDAY, A* |A.S.T.C.GRADr /ESP THIRTY STUDENTS' I H ! Graduating Exercises V/ill Be Held Thia Evening With Address by ; J Santford Martin, Editor of The ; Winston-Salem Journal i ? 9 i The graduating exercises for about j | : thirty students of the Appalachian j j j State Teachers' College are to be! ] I held this evening. Hon. Santfordj s J Martin, editor of the Winston-Salem | \ | Journal, is scheduled to deliver the1; j address of the occasion and the col-! | lege is looking forward to his com-1 ] I ihg with pleasure. The second sum-,s j mer term closes Friday. 1 ! The program is as follows: ] j Processional?O Mother Dear Je-h | rusalem. j Invocation. j Chorus?When Lite is Bright. t Chorus?Neapolitan Serenade. Literary Address?Hon. Santford Martin, Winston-Saleio. Chorus?Canoe Song. Chorus?Music of the South. Presentation of Diplomas. |; ! Alma Mater?Appalachia. Last Saturday evening Miss Marie j i Hale of Pensacola. Yancey county, i i pntprhiinoil wil.K . ?* ^lauuaiiiiS J'tallV 1 recital. The program was exception-! , aliy well rendered and the audience ! was most appreciative. Miss Hale j was assisted in a most entertaining:! way by Miss Mildred McDade of. Boone, in several most pleasing readings. At the close of the entertain- j mont, Dr. .1. I). Rankin, dean of the j college, presented a certificate of; graduation in piano to Miss Hale. | iFour Young Ladies To j Take Nurse Training! Sunday mqrning at the Cove Creek I Baptist church, just before the elosr.j. ing of the morning service. Dr. Gor- , don called to the front four young j ladies , Misses Pearle and Earle: Payne, twin sisters, Miss Bonnie Mc-1 Bride and Miss Doris Mast, and spoke as follows: "Those four young ladies are leaving Wednesday after- , noon for the Memphis Baptist Hos-! pita) where they will he in training ! for the high vocation of nurses, i They are leaving home and friends i to give their lives to suffering hu inanity. The: are going to see dis-! ease working its worst, broken bod- j ies, and to do their utmost to pi in- j ister to the comfort of sufferers in ! our grc?*t R? nHst hospital;" Dr. Gordon then addressed the! young ladies, reminding them that it > will take the best they are capable of summoning to meet the demands by which they may become skillful servants to suffering humankind. There i i .. . ... ? was not a dry eye in the large con-1 gregation as individuals came for- i ward, pledged their prayers and j wished the young ladies God's bles- j sings in their undertaking. It was 1 1 a service--that will long"dinger in the memory of the Cove Creek Baptist church. FOSCOE NOTES Foscoe, Aug. 28?Mrs. Carrie Walters is visiting her granddaughter in Blowing Rock. Mrs. Will Brewer and sons spent the week-end with relatives in Johnson City, Tenn. Mr. Russell Gragg and family o*f Boone spent last week in Foscoe. I A double-header baseball game j y ? played at the Foscoe school base| ball grounds" on the afternoon of j August 23. The Foscoe boys met. : the team from Valle Cruris in the i first gmae, Foscoe winning 15 to 9. Then Foscoe and Grandfather Mountain team crossed bats, Foscoe losing this game 21 to 8. Rain interferred with the second contest and the Foscoe boys were more orj less tired from their exertions in the | first game, but their play' was spirit- j cd, and they hope for better luck j i next time. CLENN- HARRELSON Friends in this section have received the following wedding invitation. VMr. and Mrs. Ch'as. D. Blackmail request the honor of your presence at the marriage of their daughter, Miss Constance W. Harrelson to Mr. A. Greer Glenn on Wednesday morning the eleventh of September, one thousand nine hundred and twentynine at half nftor fori n'flrtfl I Methodist church. Temple, Texas." This wedding will be of interest to i Wataugans in view of the fact that | Mr. Glenn is a native of this county j and a prominent high school teacher, while Miss Harrelson was at one | time a student at the college in i Boone. SCHOOL OPENINGS 1 i As previously announced, the De-i j monstration, or grade school fot 1 j Boone will open its regular term on | j September 10, while _t6e high school j ' will begin one week later, on the i I 17th. Indications are that the at-j ' tendance at both institutions this! | r?n?icijo|Jv L--BMBEWSMI _ XRA st North Carolina , 1925 Paris Coffey Held | for Superior Court Blowing Hoik, Augi 2ti?riiris Coffey, charged with the killing of \bner Loudermilk, at the home of S Fred Coffey, brother of the slayer, md husband of Loudermilkfs sister, ivill be tried for the murder at the fall term of superior court at New-! land ill October, according to re-! ports brought to Blowing Rock by' c< HL D. Lowderroilk. brother of the \ \\ dain man, who returned today from | the preliminary hearing held in J ' Vewland Saturday. j P' According to the testimony of Mrs. j Fred Coxfey, in whose home the j u ^hooting took place, the shooting fol- . lJ lowed a (quarrel between herself andjP' husband, in which Lauder milk came 1 "J to the defense of his sister, striking 0 Fred Coffey with his Fist. At this; point Mrs. Laudermilk caught upj^ the youngest of her five children J and ran from the kitchen where the ' * two men were struggling. j5' From the adjoining room she: heard a gun click and turning saw | n her brother-in-law pull the trigger j e and heard her brother fall. He died i n instantly, with a bullet entering his|Ci head from behind the right ear and u tearing through the bone of his face, j ? between the ieft eye and ear. The | J* cause of Laudermilk's death, from j an ^explosive bullet, was stated by . Dr. Proffit of Elk Park, who testi-1 11 fied at the preliminary hearing Sat-. ~ urday before Magistrate Ray. | ^ Dr. Profit was called by H. D. ^ Laudermilk of BIdwufe Rock who j ,h reached the scene of the shooting] five hours after the death of his j'" brother. The other witnesses were \ Fred Coffey, who was brought to I ? the courtroom from the Newland jr county jail, where he had been plac-' ed following his arrest on a liquor!^ charge, and Annie Dellinger, with;" whom Paris Coffey is charged with j * rmvirtg-lived in adultery for the past c three years, having been arrested on , that charge following the murder. > The latter two witnesses, for the n defense, testified that Laudermilk ? was killed by Paris Coffey in selfdefense. " Coffey was held on $1,500 bond j but had not made bond Saturday. , j1 The community in which the kill-; ] ing took place is one of the most, isolated in this section. It lies be-j a inw the Crandfatl er Mountain in ai corner of Avery count v. adjoining Wr.tapga. The aquatic population at* Blow ^ mg :Ri}vk"'h?5~"gfoV? n hy 2o.G0G dur:! , I ing the past week. Twenty-iivo thou-| j sand of the increase has been the ! . speckled brook trout, natives of the * state fish hatchery at Roaring Gap, which have been added to the new; . lake at <" tola, summer home of ' J. L. Snyu.r of Charlotte. A smaller colony of this famous species, 2,- p 000 in number, have been removed ^ from the state hatchery near Boone ^ to the just completed pond of A. M a Crite/ier on hlj^groperty south ~ oi Chestnut Lane. ^ ? A substantial addition to the prop- s: erty of the Robbins Nursery has just c been completed on the Blowing Rock- b Boone highway, adjoining the tract fi of 154 acres which the nursery owns along Middle Fork. This addition is a shipping and warehouse, 80 by 36 feet, constructed in preparation for the fall shipping season n which will op"en September 1. g One hundred small native shrubs ^ and trees have been put out on the ^ property adjoining ^rie;-''^f6wuac ;|* since the beginning of the year, j ^ consisting chiefly of the three kinds; of rhododendrons, azalea and hem- i ^ lock. Besides the shipments made i ^ from their own property, large j ^ areas are contracted in Ashe. Wat-! n auga, Avery, Caldwell and Wilkes g counties for their shrubbery which n is shipped the Robbins Nursery ^ from Boone, Lenoir and North ^ ??U, *-i-~ -i ,. ..nVovuiv, >? ibil nnr auuii lOI. CM1S i g, fall of sections bought in Tennes- 0 see and Virginia. Shipments are n made to all (iarts east, from the w wealthy estates along the H-uson j,< River on into the lower sou to. andja much local landscaping and planting i t( is done by the firm. | f( Grover Robbins of B ov.lng Roek|j, and Frank Robbins of Boone nrelj, joint owners and managers ot the j nursery. | a i cl SENATOR TYSON DEAD I ii o Philadelphia, Aug. 24.?Lawrence C Davis Tyson, United States senator n from Tennessee, died early today in the Manress Manor sanitarium at Stafford. Senator Tucnn t,...1 I.. ill at the sanitarium for more than | a month following: a nervous break-1 R down. He suffered a serious relapse ! s yesterday and since then little hope i f had been held out for recovery, j b Funeral services will be held atjs Knoxville Wednesday at 3 o'clock, j t Senator Tyson was a native of Nov! b i s Carolina, having: been born on a j f farm near Greenville, N. C. As a bov j r he worked as nigrht clerk in a hotel j c at Salisbury, where he aiso drove the j T house bus to and from the railroad 11 station. ! CvfcBPv ' i ?' )NE MURDER CASE ON COURT DOCKET uperior Court for Trial of Criminal antl Civil Cases Convenes Monday, With Likelihood That it Will Run Weil Into Second Week Judge Jolixi M. Osrleaby, of Con>rd, will preside at the fall term of "atauera superior court which will mvene next Monday. The term, tonuses to run well into the second eek as the criminal docket is made p of more than one hundred cases, &ngmg from murder down to apearance bonds and other minor rnat:rs, and the civil docket contains 3 cases. Considerable interest will center bout the arraignment of Dewey fard. who was incarcerated on June 6, after having confessed to the aying* of Ralph Eggers with a timer cutter's axe. following a quarel which started when the fcwo were ngaged in cherry picking in a re10te section of the Beaver Dam ountry. It is recalled thai there ere no eye witnesses to the tragedy, ther than a small child who is al ged to have brought the news to is mother that the father was being hopped with an axe. An examination by the coroner revealed three ashes, two in the left side below ie heart and one above the left hip. raid made no attempt to escape and said to have circulated the report mt Eggers met his death by a fall a the- axe from the cherry tree, fowever. following the examination f the body, he confessed to the kill ig, stating that Aggers cursed him ecause he hadn't secured whiskey, truck the first blow and that he was rst to have the axe. It is believed fiat both men were drinking when he affray started ami in view of he fact that actuai~e>-e -v\4tiieiRST^-so~ he entire fight are lacking, there is iucii speculation as to the probable utcome of the case. So far as is known. Ward has lapped out no detir.ite plan of license, no lawyers having", been emioyed. Attorney W. R. Lovill, who as heretofore largely figured in efeiise roies, has been employed to ssist the state in the prosecution. r. s. rollanSj ash,eville, may OPPOSE SENATOR SIMMONS Ashevilie. Aug. 24.?The name of "honias S. Rollins, widely known tsheville attorney^ mis bboiieu Ih .o he limelight as the potential Reublican candidate for United States enator to oppose Senator F. M. Sim ions in the general election next ea r. G. 0. P. leaders in the central art of the state launched a movelent for Mr. Rollins early in the reek and during' the past few days . has gained widespread approval in 1] sections ojfthe state. Mr. Rollins^ has been active in Republican circles for many years, [e has declined 0:1 numerous occaions to accept the nomination for ongress, but may be prevailed upon y his friends to lead the party's ght for a seat in the senate. MRS. ELIZABETH HAGAMAN Mrs. Elizabeth Hagaman, aged, 80, lother oi* County Superintendent mith Hagaman, died at her home i the Beaver Dam section last Sunay after a lingering illness, due irgeiy to the inFi i*rhi?ies- incident to er advanced age: Mrs. Hagaman was the eldest aughter of Alexander Wilson, and as born November 20, 1848. She as married in 1S67 to Hugh Hagian and seven children were born: mith Hagaman, Boone; Emmett lagaman, Texas; Nancy Hagaman, Irs. Rev Dotson, Mrs. Ellis Moody, leaver Dam; Mrs. Will Smith, John>n City, and Millard Hagaman, all f whom survive except the last amed. All the children living were ith her at her death except Emmett. uneral services wen* h*?ld \i nd interment in Forest Grove ceme;ry. A large congregation gathered or the last rites, many friends go\g from Boone. The floral offerlgs were profuse and beautiful. Mrs. Hagaman was one of Watuga county's most loved ladies, her hief characteristic through life hav~.g been her uniform kindness to all -ith whom she came in contact, A Ihristian mother and an unselfish eighbor and friend has gone on. HE KEPT HIS WORD Chapel Hill, Aug. 27.?Harry leacham. 21, of North Wilkesboro, tudeut at the University of North, larolina this summer, was playing ridge this afternoon, but with contant ill luck. "I'm going to shoot he next person who deals me a orry hand." he declared, laying a listol on the table. He dealt next limself," laid down a - yarfcorougr."' r hand without a face card, ar.d ticking up the pistol shot himself in he right temple. He died within a ew hours.