The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-05-31
K. M. McLANE
 A SUICIDE Mayor of Baltimore Kills
 HimSeA. POLITICS BACK oF IT Had Been Criticised for His Administrative Acts. Two Weeks Ago He Was Married te ~ Leader of Society !. the City Of aonaments-Repasiican
 Succeeds Him. sfss ..I 4

Baltintora. May s0.---Mayor Robert If. McLane of Baltimore, shot and killed himself in his bedroom at his home in this city today
 His bride of two weeks was at tho time asleep in tho adjoining room. and was awakened by the discharge of tho revolver. which Mir. McLans evidently used while standing before the mirror of the dressing case
 The bullet entered the right temple. and, crashing through the head, es- capped in the rear of the left ear. Mrs. McLane and other members of tho household rushed to the Mayors assists ance, but he did not regain consctous- ness after he fell to the flood, and ex- pired within an hour. Physicians who were immediately summoned having ait once expressed the opinion that the wound was necessary fatal.
 No cause can be assigned for the act by the members of Mir. McLeans fam fly. Since the first of last February he had been kept assiduously at work ad- ministertng the affairs of the city, be- sides endeavoring to direct the reha- Utilization and rebuilding of the burned district
 Temporarily Insane.
 This. together with criticisms by his political opponents. are thought by many to have caused temporary aber- ration of mind.
 Coroner Benjamin F. Hayden signed certificate giving suicide as the cause of death and the remains were turned over to an undertaking firm to be pre- pared for burial.
 Mayor Mclean was elected as a Democrat to the office of Chief Magfs : trate of the municipality in May of last year for term of four years. Under the city charter. he will be succeeded by E Clay Tymanus. Republican, PresI~8 dent of the second branch Of the City Council, to serve out the .unexpfred term The second branch of the coun- I cfl, which is Republican, will elect d President. not necessarily a member Of the present body, to preside over its deliberations
 Of DistinRuIshed Lineage. | Mayor McLane was 3e years of age. the youngest Chief Executive Baltf- more ever had. He was the son of James L. Mclean, President of the First National Bank, and nephew of Robert M. McLane, former Governor of Mary land and United States Minister to France during President Grover Cleve- lands first administration.
 Previous to his election as Mayor. he had four years filled the office of States Attorney, in which he had dis t1hBulSheO niinselI Dy zeal0uS ana intelligent discharge of his duties. Dur ing his brief administration of the may oralty office, he had brought upon him. self the antagonism of the regular Democratic party by the appointment of independent members of the party Recently there has been marked oppo- l sition to him among Democratic mem- bers of the City Council in matters re- lating to the rebuilding of Baltimore, and this Is ascribed by many as a con tributory cause of suicide.
 Mayor McLane was married two weeks ago to Mrs. Mary Van Bibber a well-known and popular society leader of Baltimore, and the newly-made bride Is prostrated by the tragedy. The dead Mayor was very popular among the people, irrespective of party, and the whole community has been profoundly | shocked by his tragic end