what really happened to lovborg?

i think the judge shot him. i'm not an expert on suicide but i'm pretty sure if someone is going to shoot themself it wouldn't be in the chest. for one thats a sort of awkward place to shoot if you're trying to kill yourself as quickly as possible and two how would the gun get back into his breast pocket after he had "shot" himself. i'm thinking the judge was just like hey mang, you be tryin' to take my lady away and ruin my triangle relationship but not a relationship just casual encounters thing and i don't like it, so bang. take that. and then he played it off as if he didn't do it and that he's just the innocent bystander who has to sit on the sidelines. i thought the judge was a pretty unsavory fellow throughout the whole play but this pretty much solidified that view of him in my eyes. it just seems weird that he would do that. he wants to be the one cock of the walk but he doesnt want to be tied down to anyone. he's a swinger but he doesn't want his swings to swing also if you get what i mean by that. judge brack is bologna, grade a bologna i say.