Ends Life by Shot.
Yale Stevens Shoots Himself at His Home in Rye, N.Y.
Rye, N.Y., April 11---Yale Stevens, 51 years old, whose business was the management of his personal estate, committed suicide today by shooting himself in the head in a garage behind his home on Thistle Lane in the Louden Woods section pf this village. Dr. Amos O. Squire, Westchester Medical Examiner, said he was informed that Mr. Stevens had been ill for several months and became despondent after an operation a month ago.
Mr. Stevens was born in Jefferson Barracks, Mo., and was a son of the late Major C. J. Stevens. He was graduated from Yale University in 1914. He was a member of the Apawamis Club, Manursing Island Club and the American Yacht Club, all in Rye, and the Yale Club in New York.
Mr. Stevens leaves a wife, Mrs. Rosa Duncan Sharpe Stevens; his mother , Mrs. Sarah Maffett Stevens of Wilkes-Barre, Pa.; a son, William H. Y. Stevens, an ensign in the Naval Reserve on active duty; a daughter, Mrs. Margaret Clark of Brookline, Mass., and a sister, Miss Adelia Stevens of Wilkes-Barre.
