OBIT: J. Frank CONDON, 1901, Altoona, Blair County, PA

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LEFT TELEGRAM FOR HIS SON

Pennsylvania Court Reporter Then Committed Suicide.

  Altoona, Pa., April 25 - J. Frank Condon, for the past twenty years 
official court reporter for Blair and Cambria Counties, committed 
suicide in his office in this city during yesterday afternoon by 
blowing out his brains.  His body was not found until to-day.  On his 
desk was a telegram addressed to his son in Johnstown, saying: "Father 
is dead; come."  Sealed letters to friends were also found in his desk.  
Mr. Condon had been in poor health for a long time.  He was 47 years of 
age.

Brooklyn (NY) Daily Eagle, April 25, 1901