This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Death Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JW.2ADE/7929 Message Board Post: Russian Burp Gun Used For Suicide A Russian "burp gun" was the] weapon used by Seth Craige Whitley to end his life Friday, May 8 at 1 :10 p.m. in his apartment at the Naval Housing according to Sheriff's Sgt. Loren Fote of Mojave substation. He had been taken into custody at Edwards AFB where he had been emp1oyed by Douglas Aircraft, on a warrant charging him with failure to provide for children by a previous wife. He had asked the arresting officers, Loren Fote and Tom Shuell, for permission to pick up certain personal effects and bid his wife goodbye. He was granted this and was almost ready to leave when he dashed back into the apartment. Shell followed the man and saw him come out of a closet with the automatic weapon in his hand. Tom ducked as a burst of shots riddled the man with several piercing the walls of an adjoining' apartment. . Whitley was instantly killed by the terrific volley and the body was removed to O'Donnell Funeral Home where funeral arrangements were to be made pending an autopsy, which was held at the O'Donnell Funeral Home on Tuesday afternoon. Posted by East Kern Genealogical Society Courtesy of Mojave Desert News California City, Kern, CA Published: 13 May 1954