The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-01-31
EO2MONTHS
KILLS HIMSELF.
High Cost Of Living Drives
Charles ". Du Bois to
Fatal Shot.
ENDS LIFE IN NEW HOME
Body Found by Bride, Navy De-
partment Clerk Under Him
When They Married.

Charles F. Dubois. chief Of the
examining division Of the auditor
of the Navy Department. and .
bridegroom of two months, killed
himself in his newly purchased
bungalow in Hyattsville this morn
ing. Going into the cellar, he fired
four bullets into, his breast, willis
his bride, one Of his former clerks.
was upstairs supervising the getting
of breakfast. Inability to meet the
high cost of living is believed to
have been the cause.
BRIDE FINDS HIM.
The bride. rushing into the cellar.
after the shots. found her husband
lying dead against pile of wood.
Screaming. she ran upstairs and out
OF the house to the home of Willaims
A. 8re4k ~ rsighhof. end FORMER
j6ayer Of HyattsvfIie, He summqnsA
HeEbsytsI, ~ Monitt Justice, ,ef ) Aa
peace. They found the dead man still
clutching the small pearl-handled re-
volver with which he had ended his
life.
In one of his pockets they found Q
bottle of stryohnine. Evidently Du-
Bois had planned to make death sure.
Du Bois was forty-five years old.
and son of Capt Richard Du Bois,
U. S. A. retired, veteran Indian
tighter. of POPS Sixteenth street north
west. He had been in the office of
the auditor of the Navy twenty years,
and was promoted to the post of chief
of the examining division in the early
days of the war. A little more than
two months ago he married Miss
Maude Followed, a war worker who
had been employed in his office. He
purchased a bungalow In Hyattsville.
and gave 1t to his bride as a wedding
present. The couple took up their
residence there following their honey
moon.
LIFE FULL OF ROMANCE
The forty-five years of the suicides
life teemed with romance and drama.
AS young man he entered the army
and served throughout the war with
Spain, leaving the Government serv-
ice to do so.
From Cuba, Dubois was transferred
to Porto Rico, under General Miles.
He was stricken with typhoid fever,
and taken to the hospital
AS he lay delirious, there came q
cyclone-"the great wind of 'eS"-
which blew down the hospital, lifted
patients from their beds, carried them
mn DO nf I'D. Ill 4
Dubois was picked up for dead, in a
field, and taken to an impromptu
morgue, so crowded with corpses
that they were piled one on the other.
LAY UNDER CORPsEs.
Dubois lay in a corner unconscious
under two corpses. There was no
time or facilities for embalming.
All were to, be buried that afternoon.
One OF Dubois elbows was protrud-
ing. A sergeant, passing. gave it .
kick. That kick saved Dubois from
being buried alive, for II landed on
his funny bone" and restored him
to consciousness.
Returning from the war he went
back to his old place, and married.
Life. ran smoothly enough for a
time. Then came near tragedy.
Dubois was found one evening
with a bullet wound In his chest.
Just as he passed into unconscious.
ness, he murmured something about
having been shot by The Coun-
tess"
While he lay in A. hospital the
police searched for this woman of
mystery vainly. And when Dubois
regained consciousness and found he
would live, he retracted his frst
declared he wanted the
police to drop the case, and insisted
he had shot himself. His charge
against the countess, he said, was
probably due to delirium."
The police continued to search for
"the countess" for time. but with
out result.
WIFE FOUND A SUICIDE.
Not long after that his wife was
found dead, suicide. She had taken
poison on a vacant lot on Fourteenth
street, Mt. Pleasant. Her body was
found lying In the weeds.
Another period of uneventfulness n
and then came the world war. Du-"
Bois was made chief OF the division
in which he had worked so many
years as clerk. His force was en-.
larged and then enlarged again.
Among the war workers assigned
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