The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-07-29
PULLIAM DIES
 THIS MORNING
National League President Semi-Conscious After
 Shooting Himself
MUTTERED A FEW WORDS

| New York, July 29.-Harry c. Pulli-
 jam, president of the National League | of Professional Baseball Clubs, died | this morning at TAO in his rooms at
 the New York Athletic Club, 59th street and 9th avenue from a pistol | wound selfinflicted. The head of the
 league, was suffering, it is believed,
 from some mental disease at the time he fired the fatal shot. He had been | in fll-health for many months and two | of his outbreaks at the baseball meet ing occurred, once in Chicago and once | in Cincinnati, forcing him to retire temporarily. Pulliam shot himself at few moments after nine last night, the ball going completely through his and severing the optic nerve so that even if he could have recovered he would have been blind for life. Ac- cording to Thomas Brady, an attend as Pulliam shot himself and who placed the dying man under technical arrest for attempt at suicide, Pulliam left no intimation of the cause which
 led to the suicide.
 Pulliam had been keeping rooms at
 the Athletic Club which he occupied
 whenever he was in New York. He returned to his club last night at S:3O
 o'clock He retired but few moments
 after the telephone operator saw the
 light on his number. He answered
 but received no call from Pulliam. A
 second later he heard a crash over the
 telephone as though someone had fall
 en. Continuing the calls he failed to
 gt an answer and a bell-boy was sent
 to see what was the matter. Peering
 over the transom he saw Pulliam lying, on the floor, clad only in his under
 clothing with blood pouring from a
 bullets hole in his head.
 Pulliam was semi-conscious for a time after he was found, but could m pa O ct a IT oclxo why he shot himself and he murmured, "Shot myself? Why I'm not shot, Then he began talking in a rambling way which could not be understood. Once he said:"Rub my head; my head hurts,' but said nothing more that was int eligible
 Physicians were immediately sum- moned but announced that there was Though Pulliam regained conscious | ness two or three times he was un- | able to give any account of the shoot | ing. His friends declare he broke strain under which he found himself. | FuiIam literally worked himself in to a state of nervous collapse. At the recent big league meeting in Chicago
 in February Pulliam's outbursts led to his temporary, retirement. Pulliam boarded a train and went to Cincinnati ii and then to St. Louis, in both of |, these cities attracting much attention oy HIS dcIlOHS- HIS -DTOtn0T ana Aug 1 1st Hermann, president of the Gin ,innati club, took care of him and he vas sent south where he took a long -est and seemed to recover assuming he presidency of the league. While n the south he underwent an operation l on his eyes.
 Harry Pulliam was born in Scotts- yille, Ky, in 1870 and was a graduate ,f the University of Virginia. He did work in Nashville. and then became the president of the Louis 7ille baseball club when Barney Drey
 uss merged the Pittsburg and Louis yille clubs, Pulliam became it's secre- ary. In 1899 he was elected ,presi- !. lent of the National League and has leld that office since. He has had many battles with the clubs under his control. He managed the National league during its war with the Amer can League. He has had much trou- ,le with the New. York and Chicago baseball clubs management, but even lis enemies admitted that Pulliam was splendid baseball executive, ana a nan who had the interests of the ! eague at heart.