July 18 1887
Times Picayune
TEXAS
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ATHENS

Suicided Because of Rheumatism.

ATHENS, Tex., July 8 -- {Special} - This evening County Clerk F A Hunt shot himself. Three shots in rapid succession were heard and Hunt was found lying on the floor with two bullet holes in his breast, over the heart. The third shot missed, but the other two bullets passed through the body and lodged in the wall.

He left letters showing that poor health was the cause. He was a Knight of Pythias. In one of his letters he says: "I am tired of life. My mind is as clear to-day as it ever was." He was badly deformed by rheumatism, which had bent his body into a semicircle.

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