The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-02-10
THE PISTOL ROUTE
A LAWYER AND BANKER KILL
THEMSELVES IN THE PAN
THEIR CITY.
I'LL HEALTH And WORRY
One Tragedy Occurs in the Worth
Hotel and the Other in Bank
BuiIdng-Both Promin-
ent Citizens.

Fort Worth, Texas, Feb. 10
Eric c. Gambren, son of Rev. DR..
]. b. Gambrell, president of the
Baptist board of missions of Texas
and himself brilliant attorney, shot
himself through the heart about s
o'clock last night. He came here yes
terday morning from Ardmore, Okla.
where he had recently opened law
hotel. During the day he telephoned
his friend, Mr.. Hopkins of Dallas, to
come to Fort Worth. Mr. Hopkins
came and had an earnest conference
with Mr.. Gambrell, at which Mr..
Gambrell discussed his affairs free
ly, and declared his intention to end
it all. He had neglected his practice,
which had dwindled to nothing at
Dallas, and he was about making a
new start in life at Ardmore, and
Mr.. Hopkins called attention to his
brilliant attainments, to his eminent
ability as an advocate and lawyer
declaring that success or failure rest
| ed with himself. When Mr.. Hopkins
left Fort Worth at o'clock to re-
turn to Dallas, Gambrell had prom
! ised him to return to Ardmore last
night and seriously pick UP the
| thread of his affairs once more. He
seemed cheerful enough, and the
news of his act was a great shock
| to Mr.. Hopkins. Later in the after
noon he called at the Record office
and chatted pleasantly with the men
in the Office with whom he had re-
Gently been associated, and with
whom he was popular.
After leaving the Record Office be-
! tween 5 and o'clock he chatted with
several friends on the street, going
| to his room in the Worth about T.
Just what he did then is not
| known. A little after o'clock a bell
boy found his body lying on the
/ floor of his room. On table was a
pad of hotel stationery, and on top
of this was a note, written in pencil
! in bold, firm hand, asking that his
! family be notified. Then removing
his hat, coat and vest and laying
them carefully on the bed, he seated
himself in chair at the foot of the
bed, facing the door, and placing
the muzzle of 3S calibre pistol di-
rectly over his heart, he fired. In the
paroxism which followed the con.
traction of the muscles, he flung the
the wall six or seven feet away
where it was found. Death must
have been instantaneous, as the
body rolled from the chair and he
was found lying prone on his face
his head resting upon one arm, as il
asleep. But a great red blotch or
the carpet and the tell-tale carmine
where the bullet emerged told tina,
! Eric Gambrell was resting in the
long sleep.
! LINTON c. HUTCHINS.
ooding over i'll health, Lintor
c. Hutchins, second vice-presiden1
of the Fort Worth National bank
killed himself yesterday morning be-
tween $50 and 10 o'clock. A A
calibre revolver was used and one
shot was fired. The bullet entered the
left temple, ranged upward, passed
through the Uranium and out above
the right ear. The tragedy was enac
ted in the washroom OF the bank al
the corner of Main and Fifth streets
No one heard the report of the revol
yer, and the dead body, lying face
upward on the floor, was not found
until past II o'clock
Melancholia is the sole cause as
signed for the act by physicians ant
associates. Notes left by Mr. Hutch
ins, which were written Saturday af
ternoon, tend to confirm this belief
Banking or money affairs had moth
ing to do with the deed. Irresponsi
bility, superinduced by overwork, Ii
the only solution. as the notes arr
silent as to the reason for suicide