The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-11-28
PICTURE IN A PAPER
LOUISVILLE TO COMMIT
SUICIDE
NEWsB0Y WAS THoUGHTLEss
While Meditating Self-Destruction
Friends Were Hunting for Him
to Offer Financial Assist
ance if Needed.

LOUISVILLE, KY, Nov. 2.-Stuart r.
Young, city treasurer OF louisville, this
evening went to the rear of warehouse
at Sixth and Nelson streets and commit
ted suicide by shooting himself behind
the right ear with pistol.
A great sensation was created late this
afternoon When the last edition of an
evening paper appeared with a story
saying in substance that accountants
were at work on the books of the re-
firing city treasurer, Stuart r. Young,
and that it was reported that discrepan-
cies had been found In his accounts.
Immediately the friends of Mr. Young
began to look for him, not believing the
reports. They were surprised at ~ be-
ing able to find him. They hoped for
the best, however, because the reports
could not be suhstantiated, and the eX-
pert accountants refused to make a
statement.
Shortly after p. IN. Mr. Young was
seen at the ladies' entrance of the Louis
vile hotel on Main street, between Sixth
and Seventh, where hes lived with his
bride of a few months. Two newsboys
who knew Mr.. Young ran up and said:
Mr.. Young, don't you want a paper?
Its got your picture in it!'
Could Not Endure Disgrace.
One glance at the double column head
lines told Mr.. Young why the paper had
printed a double column picture of him.
Instead Of entering the hotel he walked
down Sixth street towards the river, the
newsboys following him ON the other side
of the street. Just after passing Nelson
street Mr.. Young turned off between
some box cars. -r7ss--
The boys feared to follow him any fur
ther, and returning to the hotel described
carriage was in front Of the hotel. JOnn-
son, the 1rackman, was acquainted with
Young, and following the direction given
by the newsboys passed between tie cars
and brought up in a cinder- covered drive
way in the rear Of warehouse at Sixth
and Nelson streets. Here he saw Mr..
Young lying face downward, his right
arm under him. Johnson shook the form
of the man, not suspecting he had killed
himself. Seeing a bullet hole behind Mr..
Young's right ear. Johnson turned the
body over. Then he saw, a pistol in Mr.
Young's right hand. Life was extinct.
Wife Came to- Telephone.
johnson ran to telephone and called
up the residence of Young's father, Col
B. H. Young. Mrs Stuart r. Young an
swered the telephone, but the hackfnan
called for Col. Young and told him the
news Col Young Immediately went to
the scene of the suicide with some OK
his sons friends. One OF these, who Is
one of the most prominent business men
in Louisville, while walking up and down
the cinder driveway said. with tears roll
ing down his checks: '1f his friends
could have found him today this would
never have happened. If money was
needed we should have supplied 1t. "
Other friends of the dead man said
they had spent the afternoon looking for
him.
The corpse was removed to an under
taking establishment under orders of the
coroner for an inquest. Young was thir-
ty-five years old. He was j. graduate
of Princeton university, a son Of Col.
Bennett H. Young, and brother OF
Lawrence Young, of Chicago, president