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ftOYHIBER 26, 1926. PART I.J 5 FRIDAY MORNING. Will Rice or Performance ry cow rv RICH WIDOW STRANGLED Body of Seattle Woman Found Behind Furnace; Clews Tally With Series of Coast Slayings SEATTLE, Not. 35. Florence Monka, a widow cf thle city with an estate valued at 1500,000.

wti strangled to death, investigator announced after an autopsy. Her bod; found last night behind the furnace in her home, which she occupied alone. Mrs. Monks left a sister, Mrs. Charles Drummond of Flushing, Long Island, N.

V. Decide Which Set 4. You'll Buy? MM-- I SI OIF1 iM I un it! The home of Mrs. Monks had beenand the strangler is also being sought for this killing, jfWh yp, 'una: advertised for sale. Investigators pointed out that In Portland, Or, this year women were ktUed by men who entered their homes In the guise of prospective purchasers of property.

The Monks home was ransacked and a bodice worn by the victim was torn at a place where she usually wore a diamond sunburst. Take advantage of Platt'i FREE Home demonstration to learn just what a Grebe will do. No obligations on your part In each case the murdered woman lived alone and either had lodglncs to rent or a place to sell. Each victim had been criminally assaulted and most of them had been robbed of their most-valued belongings. The San Francisco strangler, evidently a finished workman at his grewsome craft, left no fingerprints or other clews to his identity at any time, and his movemonts have baffled the police as no other criminal has baffled them in years.

Governor Due to Answer on Rum Charges BIRMINGHAM (Ala.) Nov. 35. So far as the Prosecuting Attorney of Baldwin county knows. Gov. Brandon and eight of his friends will appear In County Court there December 6, next, to answer charges of violating the prohibition law.

Solicitor Hall described as "unfounded" reports that a negro had pleaded guilty to possessing thirteen quarts of whisky at a hunting camp where the Governor was a visitor, and that by assuming full responsibility the negro had caused charges against the others to be dropped. Gov. Brsndon and his friends were playing cards at the camp when Interrupted to search the premises. Each of the party disclaimed ownership of the whisky. POSTMASTER APPOINTED ST.

JOHN. (Aria.) Nov. 35. (Ex-elusive) Joy B. Patterson ha been appointed on recommendation of COMPARE Grebe reception with that of other sets; and don't buy until you do Note the tone quality, the range, the selectivity, the ease with which low-wave stations are separated and tuned, the volume of distant as well as local stations.

Inland Just 60 Miles from Los Angeles The GROWTH in FIGURES DO YOU KNOW THAT The building permits in SAN BERNARDINO for the past three years amounted to The building permits for the three previous years amounted to ALMOST DOUBLE IN PAST THREE YEARS. The assessed valuation of SAN BERNARDINO as shown by the County Assessor in 1920 was And in 1926 the assessed valuation was A REMARKABLE INCREASE. There were enrolled in the schools of SAN BERNARDINO in 1920 3607 pupils? And in 1926, 7153 pupils were enrolled ALMOST DOUBLE AGAIN. The population, U. S.

official census, in 1920 was The present population, conservatively estimated on these growth figures, DOUBLE AGAIN. rAre You Interested? METHOD TALLIES WITH OTHER MURDERS 6 AN FRANCISCO, Nov. 85. (D The murder of Mrs. Florence Monka, a wealthy Seattle widow, bears striking points of resemblance to the strangling here on the night of the 19th inet.

of Mrs. William Anna Edmonds, who was also a wealthy widow. The only pronpunced inconsistency in the theory that the murder may have been done by the same man Is the fact that the descriptions of the San Francisco and the Seattle stangler do not tally. Both women met death while offering their homes for sale to a stranger, the assailant in each case having been attracted by a "For Bale" sign. The method by which they were done to death is the same, and the manner of disposal of the bodiea also hints that both crimes might have been done by the same man.

The San Francisco aesallant was described by eye-witnesses who saw Mrs. Edmonds escorting him around her home as well built, dark-haired and swarthy, while the Seattle murderer does not tally with this description. The San Francisco strangler answers the description of a man who haa killed a number of women In the last year, his activities extending from Santa Barbara to Portland. His career- first began with the killing of Miss Mary Newman here last February. On the night before Mrs.

Edmonds was slain, Mrs. H. O. Murray was found strangled in her home here controlled set at will; the Dial Light makes the tuning dial visible in dark corners; the Pro tective Fuse protects bat teries against defective tubes. And back of it all is the Grebe name, standard of quality for over seventeen years.

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