The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-13
WARD ALLEN KILLS SELF Mobile Street Car Man
 Uses Pistol.
 -->---- RESPONDENT THROUGH DRINK said to Have Been Son of Wealthy
 Parents. k.ssd Down Behind . Les st Eaa q ths' Line, saa Tela Fellow worker He was Tired

Mobile. March 12.--(specihl.) )--De- spondent on account of drink, Ward Allen, a former street car conductor on she Davis Avenue line of the Mobile Light and Railway Company. shot him. self through the head some time after 8 o'clock this morning in an isolated part of Kentz's brick yard, on Davis Avenue and Lafayette Street
 Motorman J. Elliott of the Davis Mvenue line, who was intimately acc lquainted with Allen, said that Allen lboarded his car at 6:20 o'clock this Emorning at Royal and Government Streets. He came out on the front part sof the car and talked with the motor Sman, saying he was going out to the lend of the line. and that he wanted to Esleep for an hour and sixteen minutes. NElliott says that Allen got off the car, Event over to the brick yard and laid Edown behind a log.
 While on the way out. Allen said he Hhad nothing left new but his revolver. las he had given his trunk and suit case Ito Mrs. Mercer. where he was boarding, lin the southern part of the city. Friend Aroused Him. Elliott says that on his third trir Tout he went over to the spot where fAlIen was lying and woke him up Hteiiing him he had slept the time he wanted to. Allen still wished to sleep Ion the next trip Elliott went over to Allen and found him, shot through tbs head, blood flowing from the wound. His right hand was lying acroes hif breast holding the automatic revolver with which he ended his life. Elliott says that the man was breathing slowly. He gave the alarm and had an ambulance summoned.
 
 f he was barely breathing. He was placed in tho ambulance and rapidly driven to the city hospital and placed on an operating table. He died al noon without regaiaing conscious. ness When the man was placed or the operating table at the hospital fl was seen that his life could not be saved
 When searched the one thing found on Aliens person was love letter which spoke of his parting with girl who was the author of the letter, but who did not sign her name. Allen was until a week ago in ths employ of the Mobile Light and Rail. way Company as conductor. The of. dcials of the company when asked al to Aliens character had nothing but words of praise for him, stating thai he had been discharged one week ago owing 10 his inability to keep sober They satd drink was more Of q nis. fortune with Allen than a fault Il was thought that the man was undsi the influence of liquor when he sho himself ana was despondent over lcv' affafr.
 It was learned late this afternoon that Aliens home Is in Knoxville rem. He Is said to be son oi wealthy parents.
 Letter Found on Pernon.
 The letter found on Aliens person was as follows:
 My Dear, My Dear:
 ,swhen we parted Friday with the simple handshake, and not one uttered word of God-speed, did not realize fl was the last greeting we should ever exchange. Friday eve I though sure- " he will come if only for one minute even if only to tell the children good bye.s Georgia especially deserved bet 'tes treatment of you.1 was all ex- pectancy. no Gitche! Well, you have disappointed me several times, you know, but | had not as yet become used 10 them. Then my Ietteri It is . mystery to me that you should have taken it, and then failed to return it. This morning soon, when I looked out saw No. 2s, and its new conductor
 missing. Another disappointment Later I heard the front dor open, and the Register thrown in. could not pick it up to save me. I walked belat- ed through the house for hours. Moved the rocking chair around in the cozy corner about fifty times. Just as ] acted after my little Myrtis left me MT. Hogan was out yesterday, and he