WWI Ship Camouflage Artist Puts Bullet Into Brain

Magazine Cover, Arthur Hutchins

CAMOUFLAGE MAN SUICIDE, Naval Artist Puts Bullet Into Brain, in Boston Post, March 27, 1919—

The body of Arthur Hutchins [1887-1919], 32 years old, a talented young artist, who had been missing from his home in Wollaston since early Monday, was found lying in his studio at 52 Dorchester Avenue, Dorchester, yesterday morning, with a bullet wound in his head.

The discovery of his body was made by a boy in the office of Joe Mitchell Chapple, who occupies an office in the same building, and to whom Mrs. Hutchins telephoned yesterday in an endeavor to locate the missing man, after a search for him among relatives and friends had proved fruitless.

Mr. Hutchins had done camouflage work in the service of the navy during the war and since his dicharge a short time ago, had been engaged in making drawings for several magazines. Twice during the past few months he had suffered from attacks of influenza, and his general health had been poor since leaving his work in the navy. A wife and two children survive.

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