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Chicago Banker Suicides. Chicago, Dec. 27.-Suffering from de pression caused by financial reverses, Ot to Wasmansdorff a well known banker of this city, to-day fired a bullet into his brain and died almost instantly. Banker Wasmasdorff killed himself in a front hall bed room at his home on Cleveland avenue at 11 o'clock this morning. His sons, William G. and Otto, Jr., were In the parlor beneath their father's room heard the report of the revolver and rush ed up stairs. Running into the room the horrified sons beheld their father lying on his bed, dying, a 22-caliber revolver lying at his side. He had shot himself in the right temple, and a small stream of blood was flowing down his cheek. Ev crything in the m was in perfect order The deed apparently had been deliberate ly planned. Mr. Wasmansdorff was a member of the private banking firm of Wasmansdorft & Heinnemann, which failed a week ago as a result of the failure of the National Bank of Illinois. The failure of the bank had a crushing effect upon Mr. Wasmans dorff and also seriously affected his wife who Is III. The banker, for several days was unable to eat or sleep. The critielsm of unfortunate depositors weighed him down and he was in a constant troubled state of mind.