Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 274, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1920 — AUTO SLAYER KILLS HIMSELF [ARTICLE]

AUTO SLAYER KILLS HIMSELF

Clarence Bergman, Chicago Realty Dealer, Brooding Over SIO,OOO Sult of Victlm'e Kin, Ende Own Life. Chicago, Nov. 15.—Despondent over the fact that he was about to face a court In a damage suit of SIO,OOO brought by relative* of the man he had slain, Clarence Bergman, a realty dealer, committed suicide by shodfing himself through the head. Three years ago Bergman ran down and killed Louis Bacchl at Laramie avenue and Washington boulevard while motoring. A coroner's jury freed him on a plea of self-defense, but members Of Bacchfs family brought suit for SIO,OOO damages. “I believe he had been brooding over the aproach of the trial and that this prompted him to take his life,” said Mrs. Betgmaa.