The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-10-13
DID SCHOOL BOY SUICIDE HAVE DOUBLE
 PERSONALITY?
New Theory Looms Up Into Tragic Act of Raymond Bradley Ending Life With Pistol.

Did Raymond Bradley. 16
 year old son of Mir. and Mrs:
 Neil U. Bradley, who committed
 suicide by shooting himself yes
 ter1ay possess dual personal
 tty? This is the question foremost
 in the minds of investigators of
 the case following the boys
 sudden demise yesterday morn morn
 is how, @ 16 year old boy, con-
 templating suicide for over two
 weeks could avoid conveying
 to the men members of ss,h his immec ee
 despondesacy which he claimed
 aSsaiIed him.
 Were their two Raymond Brad leys? Was their the one. a happy, in the world who seemed to pollute the air of his home with a spirit of pleasantn ess. and then again was there another Raymond Bradley, downcast despondent youth whose only thought was death as g. deliv- erance from his trouble.
 Boy Suicide Rare.
 Circumstances point to it. Stor- les of sixteen year old boys commit ting suicide are rare enough, And when sixteen year old boy conl-- m1ts suicide and leaves a list of six reasons and in other ways discloses his idocyncrasies it leaves the ques-
 
 sub-consctous mind governs the con- scious.
 Here was Q boy who when with his playmates. according to an in the presence of his family radiated happiness Then again apparently from the notes he left behind ex- blaming his rash act while alone he over whether man positively knew whether there was a God or not. Victor Hugo's 'STragedies'' Recalled
 A sixteen year old boy, killing himself because of some passage that struck him at the psychological mo- ment in Victor Hugo's great work, Les Mtserables.'' True, Hugo's word pictures of the miserable and their kin are well painted.
 In Victor Hugo's "Les Misera bles'' many complex problems come to ' %ght; many of the great tragedies of i fe are vividly told; the great so- cial problems; the heroic struggles of he poor are shown by the nvid pen of the once great master, Hugo, and greatest of all in this book of near evolution the curtain of life, it's fni- iuities and it's anguish shown in hor- rible detail, is drawn back.
 What part of this book caused a transition in the life of Raymond Bradley who committed suicide by sending bullet from a revolver through his head. ascribing in his own hand Les MiserabIes'' as one of the six causes for his se1f-destructfon?
 It is question that is being asked today, The tragedy of the death of this young boy has caused an inn pressiOn to be made. Is Hugo's book overdrawn? Does he dwell too much on the darker side of life? Does he magnify the problems of fife; the difficulty of existance?
 Jean Valjean's Case.
 Did the injustice of man to man. as shown in Hugo's work, impress the mind of the dead youth? Jean Val of Paris, later a tree pruner. the sole support of his starving sister and Ger several children. Out of work. thrown about the streets and alleys of Paris, seeker for work. But there was t.No work. no work" was the answer the young Jean brought back to his starving sister: the an- swer to the bangs of hunger of the little children who pitbfu1ly cried Uncle Jean. Uncle Jean, we are hun gry."
 story, A crash was heard: window pane was broken and a hand went through it into the bakery shop grasp ing a loaf of bread. A figure slunk away. like a wolf with it's grey. T.o- lice trailed him, and caught hin. just entering a squalid place. It was Jean Vatican bringing food. stolen food, fc 'tgalerien" until his spirit was crushed Picture the galley slave, Jean Valjean- Picture his sister, the little children. R the grasp of death
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