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: SON OF J. E. MADDEN SUICDE Joseph W. Madden Shoots Self in New York Sporting Goods Store Raced Pew Horses. NEW YORK, N. Y., Oct. 31. Joseph W. Madden, son of the late John E. Madden, for many years Americas leading breeder and one of the most prominent turfmen, shot himself in the right temple here today. The wound was not immediately fatal, and physicians at Bellevue Hospital, where he was taken, did everything possible but could not .stave off death. Madden, who was about forty years old, enteredthe sporting goods establishment of Abercrombie and Fitch, Madison Avenue and Forty-Fifth Street, shortly before noon and took the elevator to the gun room on the seventh floor. According to attendants in the store, he purchased a box of .38 calibre cartridges. He asked the salesman for a revolver. The weapon was handed to him, and he inserted the cartridges. Madden then raised the gun to his head and pulled the trigger. Employes of the store cleared the gun room of customers, and the house physician of the Roosevelt Hotel, across the street from Abercrombie and Fitch, was summoned. A call was also sent for an ambulance. After a hasty examination Madden was removed to Bellevue Hospital. Two notes were found in Maddens pocket. One was addressed to the police and the other to a lawyer. The contents of the latter were not made public. The note to the police requested that Mrs. J. W. Madden, room 770, Hotel Plaza, be notified. It was said at the hotel that Mr. and Mrs. Madden and their two children had registered from Lexington, Ky., last week. Mrs. Madden was quickly notified of her husbands act and hurried to Bellevue Hospital. She remained at Maddens bedside, while the children stayed at the hotel. Mrs. Madden, it was reported, could ascribe no reason for her husbands deed. Madden and his brother, John E. Madden, Jr., shared equally in their fathers estate of about ,000,000 after his death on November 3, 1929, in New York city. The estate included the elder Maddens famous breeding establishment, Hamburg Place, near Lexington. All the breeding stock and young thoroughbreds were dispersed at various sales, and it was understood that the farm also was on the market. Since the death of John E. Madden, the two sons raced a few horses, but only in a most modest way. None of the horses attained prominence. They were raced in the name of the Hamburg Place Stable.
