Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1919-05-08
HERO OF War
ENDS HIS LIFE
Windsor Snowden Uses
Shotgun While Alone at
Bachelor Apartment
GIVEN CROSS OF HONOR
Nerves Thought to Have Been Shat
tered as Result Of His narrowing
Experiences in Great War.

Richard d. A. Windsor SnoWden,
Il thirty years old, winner of a croiI
de guerre for bravery while in ac-
tion, ended his life late yesterday
afternoon by shooting himself with .
shotgun while at an apartment occu-
pied by bachelors at 102 South CO.
lumbus street.
Snowden placed the gun between
his legs and took a seat in a chair
in the kitchen. His left hand was
used to pull the trigger of the gun,
the barrel of which was placed il
mis- mouth. Death is thought to
have ben instantaneous, the contents
entering his brain.
At 6:15 o'clock the body was found
limp in the chair in the kitchen b.
W. Bathurs Daingerfield and George
Grant, members of the club.
DR.. T NJ. Marshall Jones, coroner,
was notified and after viewing the
body be deemed an inquest unneces-
sary.
According to the physician Snow
den had evidently been dead f r
about two hours. It is, therefore,
supposed that he shot himself about
A o'clock in the afternoon shor5
time, after his return from Wash
ington. The shot gun was the prop
$erty Of one of the occupants of the
house.
/ Snowden was member of the
club, but did not have rooms at that
place. He, however, was frequent
caller there to see his friends. When
he went to the place yesterday af-
@ternoon there. was, no. one about.
A person passing the place saw
the form Of man sitting limp in q
chair in the kitchen and notified Nj.
Daingerfield and he together with
Nh. Grant Immediately rushed inso
the house and found the body cf
Snowden. I.
Windsor Snowden, as he w;s
known to his friends was a son Of Dr..
and Mrs. Arthur Snowden, and lived
with his parents at 920 King stree.
He was unmarried.
Snowden for several years pat
had been employed as book-keepcr
at the Riggs National Bank, Wash-
ington. AT the outbreak of the wa
he responded to the call to the colors
and subsequently entered the am
bulance corps.
Snowden was sent to Allentown,
Pa, where he received his training
before being sent overseas.
For bravery distinguished on the
field of action he was decorated. He
served with the American ambulance
corps in the French army.
The deceased spent total CT
seventeen months in the service AMI
returned from France about a month
ago. He was preparing to resume
his work at the Riggs National
Bank
The only reason that can be as
signed by his friends for his act IS
that he evidently had his nerves
shattered as a result of his harrow
;nr experiences in the great war:
and that all Of a sudden the col
lapse came.
Snowden was very modest and re-
firing about the part he played in
the war and although decorated TO"
bravery barely spoke of what he
saw unless. asked to do so by his
friends.
The deceased was popular in local
athletic circles and for number oi
years had been active in all athletic
sports.
Young Snowden had host OF
friends all of whom expressed deep
regret at his death which came as q
distinct shock to them.
His funeral will take place at 5:3C
o'clock tomorrow afternoon from his
parents residence, and the funeral
and burial will be private.
Services will be conducted by Rev
Dr.. w. J. Morton, rector Of Chris
P. E. Church, assisted by Rev. DR.
S. A. Wallis. of the Episcopal Theo
logical Seminary.