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The Commercial Appeal from Memphis, Tennessee • 1

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VOL NO 70 1 CaaaolMa Jsly 1 ted ISM MEMPHIS TENN WEDNESDAY MORNING MARCH 11 SIXTEEN PAGES FIVE CENTS Ths Csiaaerelal itKW Ths Appeal IMP The AvalasehVitd 188T Bridge Gun and Men That May Figure in Mexico's Next Big Battle PAGE- Demand death WIJson will assure Alaskan road today loan for deteettves ap-' proved Unemployed popular snakes Express men ask for trial of new rates Memphis will have industrial-hearing Consignors will get part of Lesser cotton Editorial 7 Children sent In aid for Mrs OP er Mrs Hsrdlfl Adams and tSirbbi re leased 9 Going law will soon be decided Willie Ritchie work hard for Wol-gast More than DO of Memphis club In city Cotton values make a '111 further gains Prices of stocks make slow advance Classified advertisements li Classified advertisements Tariff vindicated declares Redfield FOHRCtMT FOR IVEIIt KSDA Forecast for WASHINGTON March 10 Wednesday: Rain and Ider Wed nesday Thursday unsettled colder in east Arkansas Rain and colder Wednesday day probabl fair Mississippi and Louisiana Cloudy with probably rain Wednesday colder in interior Thursday cloudy and colder Alabama Local rains Wednesday colder at night Thursday cloudy and colder Cloudy and colder Wednesday Thursday partly Cloudy and colder Wednesday: probably rain or snow In east and south Thursday partly cloudy East Local rains and comer Wednesday: Thursday partly cloudy colder In south: brisk shifting winds becoming high north West Cloudy and colder Wednesday Thursday cloudy Kansas Cloudy and colder Wednesday Thursday fair Rain and colder Wednesday Thursday unsettled North Carolina and Sofith Carolina Cloudy and warmer Wednesday Thurs day rain and colder Cloudy Wednesday probably followed by rain by night Thursday rain and colder UNITED STATES WEATHER Memphis Tenn March 10 Federal bridge depended on by federal ms chief defense 'of Torreon Measure Before President Provides $35000000 Railway WILL BE IOOQsMILES LONG President Is Given Wide Jurisdiction in Building Road WILL TOUCH COAL FIELDS By Connecting Rich Mineral Deposits With ('Mat First UovcrsswBt-' Owraed Railroad Will He Means of laerealaiz Wealth af the United States Norther a saost Possession railroad and the expenditure of 935000000 was ready for the signature late today when the Senate adopted the conference report already adopted by the House 1 President Wilson has Indicated his Intention of signing the bill as soon as It reaches the White House and tentative plans for constructing the first government railroad already have been considered at the Interior department Secretary Lane long- an advocate of the project is prepared to go-ahead with It as soon as tlie president gives the word Final' action in Congress on 'the bill came after a long debate In the Senate the report of the conference committee appointed' to settle differences between the two houses being adopted 1 42 to 27 The measure- authorizes --the' construction of: pot tnore thaQ enolhoasgndmllM of iCHn91jqifOnnft coal 'with -the' wast-'tTie-TOiit6to be selected by -the president to whom also are left many the Important details He Is 'to decide whether nof railroad lines already constructed the territory shall be purchased as -a part of the government system and whether the toad Is to be operated by the government or leased after It Is bulIL Today's discussion was principally on a suggestion by Senator Cummins that the Senate conferees be instructed to reinsert the language of the hill as passed by the Senate and stricken out by the House providing that the president In constructing the railroad must If railway-lines In Alaska are to be bought and used aar a part -of the system buy or arrange for the purchase of these lines before construction of extensions Is begun President Protected 1 Senator bummlna declared that leaving It discretionary with the president whether the government 'should begin erecting lines into the Interior at the northern terminals of existing private railroads from the Alaskan seaboard might so enhance the value of existing railroads that syndicates could demand a prohibitive price from the govemmenL Senator Pittman replied that such a thing would be so obviously outrageous tha' ho president-would yield 'to any Influence which could bring out such a result The lnll as1 perfected he said directed the- president to construct a continuous line from the to the interior and that obviously it first would be settled whether the main' line should be built by tne government or purchased outright or by condemnation from existing corporations before any extensions were erected In the Alaskan Interior There was also extended debate on Senator Morris contention that the- language of the hill placed on the president the FOR DEATH Huerta Will Be Pressed to Punish the Guilty Parties CRIME LAID TO INDIVIDUALS No Act in Violation of International Issues Found HAD NOT BEEN TORTURED Eiaalssllss of Body Falls to Phew Sigrae of Ramlna and Tortore as Oaee Texas Rang-r Exonerated af Any Blanc La Case Widow Started Insalrr MEXICO CITY March Federal force today bottled up In the harbor of Topololtampo the gunliaat Tampico whose crew recently enlisted her with the rebels when they sank at the mouth of tlie harbor tlie RunlMiat Democrats Since the delect Ion of the Tampico Iier exit from Topolobampo had been prevented by the gunboats Morales and Gen Guer-eero The Democrata was an antiquated gunboat which had I wen used a a transport She was steamed across the mouth of the harbor and scuttled Special Cable to The Commercial AppeaL YKItA CKUZ Mex Marrh Tlie 'transport Progresso is loading cavalry and infantry tonight for Tampico It is said in military circles that conditions at Tampico are anything but satisfactory Tliere is a rumor that something has happened to the gunboat Vera Cruz bnt no official confirmation can be secured Tlie Zaragosa is already on its nay to Tampico The steamer Crown Princess Cecilia is due to arrive here tomorrow with eight million rounds of ammunition LAREDO Tex March 10 Evidence as to the execution of Clemente Vergara after he was arrested by Mexican fMerels commanded by CapL Apolonio Rodriguez Is being gathered from many sources here for presentation to the state department new that the death lias been confirmed and tbe return of the body from Mexico explained Satisfaction was felt by his family and along the border today when reports from Washington indicated that demand for reparation would be pressed and Hiwrta asked to redeem hla promise to punish tbe men guilty 1' i In the several Investigations of the Incident whleji have sheets started one Mexican hasbeeXJt0UCdOta-cJaiixia-t-ftave witnessed both the execution and burial bf It was this man according to report whd led tbe party to the grave Saturday night when they disinterred the body J- Hill l-rother-in-lsw organized the cgiiedltlon as made public today AdjL-Gen Henry Hutchings Is here making an Investigation for Gov Colquitt -Widow Started Isqnlry Reports that Clemente Vergara had been tortured iyero exploded today when an examination of hla body by state officials disclosed that his left hand was not burned as had been officially reported by Ranger CapL J' Sandera -The examination was made by State AdjL-Gen' Henry Hutchings In tlie presence of American Consul A Garrett CapL Sanders and others It was Mrs Clemente Vergara widow of the American lured to Mexico and assassinated by alleged federate who paid the $400 for recovery of her husband's body from its unmarked grave In Hidalgo Sunday morning 8 Hill Vergara's brothsr-ln-law employed tne men who comprised the expedition acting it is said as the agenL These facta were admitted here today upon receipt of news thrt official dispatches had reached Washington and that HiU'a connection with the affair had been made public there In organizing the expedition was reported here Sunday' but dissemination of the report was suppressed at the request of Consul GarretL of Nuevo Laredo that no mention of names be msde until he sbould hear from the slftte departmenL The names cf the men comprising the party which crossetl the river and brought tbe body of Vergara back to Texas are being kpt recret for fear some of them might lo killed If their names became public In connection with tlie case Some of the men public He said today they all left the city Immediately after receiving pay for their work Consul Garrett said lie did not know the names of the men and cluIJ not Identify auy one of them MYSTERY IS CLEARED iBlersstlssal Significance In the Harder ef Vergara WASHINGTON March 30 reports from Brlg-Oen Bliss anl American Consul Garrett at teredo received at the war and stele department today cleared up the mywtery which had surrounded the delivery on American o-I of the body of the rancher Clemente Vergara The reports pletely satisfied the officials that no act haa been committed by national or ntate agents In violation of Mexican sovereignty and -that If there were any offense In the removal of the body from Mexico It committed by individuals so the matter could not be made an International Is Secretary Bryan stated that he would not undertake to prosecute tlie persons who obtained tbe body even If be knew their identity which he did not beyond the fact established by Gen report that they were civilians and probabi Mexicans The finding of the body of Vergara I has had the result of advmncIAg th prosecution of the claim against the Huerta government for reparation and today Secretary Bryan transmitted tlw telegraphic report from Consul Garrett to Charge In Mexico City It is understood that th primary purpose of this is to disprove the original allegation of tbe Mexican federal com- mander at Nuevo Laredo that Vergara had made his escape-from captivity and joined tbe constitutionalists sue Will Paalsh Slayers With ths body In evidence am soon as further facte as to the character of fatal wounds are developed by the Senate Passes Measure Which Caused Factionalism BILBO MAKES HOT SPEECH Savs Blaming Him With Delay False Position JELD JUST OBLIGATION h'aet'That Senate Paned mil I'naa-Ini anal Indleated That Innocent lnreitor C'anicbt Senatorial Sympathy Rather Than Indoraemeat of Governor Inveatlaat Ion Special to The Commercial Appeal JACKSON Mias March lO-The legls-itlve feature today was the passage by Senate of the somewhat noted mcas- re known as House bill No 439 which is brought on a controversial end fac lonal war in the legislature This wai he bill to take up and pay a loan nego-loted by the governor to meet the expenses of conducting his penitentiary de artnaent Investigation carrying over 31G-W principal and Interest the note for vhlch wes due at the Capital National tank' this city In January U14 It waa this same account which brought oi th two caustic messages from the gov-nior in which he scored the leaders who ad brought about the delay During tlt nnsideration of the bill today Lleut-Gov VIbo took the floor and criticized the tx-cutlve in no uncertain terms going so ir os to declare that hlscharglng up uf iie delay In acting on the bill to himself Bilbo) was untrue" During his address the lleutenant-gov-rnor stated In the hearing of hundreds hearers that lie had come to r-a'iizu hat "when that grand old veteran from lollvar County Col Charles Scott on re occasion at Greenwood applied mat short ugly to the present occu ant of the chair 'then his op- alklng IJeut-Gov Bilbo delivered bta address efore a packed Senate chamber into vhlch a majority of the House members owdecl while the galleries were packed Rill Passes Unanimously The burden of his argument waa that chile he was not attempting to defeat the assage of the bill In fact be declared he people who loaned the money should paid Ills quarrel with the governor nd hla associates was on the ground hat the governor1 had not complied with he spirit or letter of the resolution Tier which he secured the loan by submitting to the Legislature an Itemized tatement of accounts The address of Lieut -Gov Bilim waa he principal argument a few of the sen-tors explaining that they voted for the ill mostly for the reason that It mi a lebt due to innocent investors that must met Tho fact that the bill passed ithout a vote- in 'dissent indicated that he Senate was convinced lt was a just bligatlon i- Afternoon sessions were held in both louses with legislation of secondary importance before the bodies Several minor pproprlatlon bills passed the House dur-ng- the day Just before adjournment the Senate took ip and passed two enabling bllla pertaln-ng to the City of Senatobla These were authorize donations to encourage the Tate County Fair and to authorize Scna-obia to vote money for the upkeep of a ural cemetery adjacent The bllla were Introduced by Senator the early afternoon and had passed Tucker today passed on by the committee efore o'clock Senator Tucker was com riimented on hla effective work MOON ECLIPSE TONIGHT tlsioit Total Shadow Cn Be Seen la All Sections WASHINGTON March There will almost total eclipse of the moon tomorrow night risible from all parts of Vestern Europe North and South Amer-t-a and Western Africa Astronomers at he- naval obaervatory here tonight pre-ared to take advantage of the eppor-unlty for special observations It -was olnted out that the fainter stars are tore easily seen during an eclipse and jiat they are of great importance In cor-ooting lunar tables As yet astronomers tave found ft Impossible to compute from heory tables which agree exactly with he positions observed in the sky 1 The shadow of the earth will not cover ntlrely the moon but at the middle of ho eclipse more than nine-tenths of the noon's diameter will be in the shadow The moon la due to enter the shadow cording to precise reckoning at 1:41 8-10 tomorrow night eastern standard ime should reach the middle of the clipse at 11:12 9-10 and leave the hadow at 12:44 am Thursday FOUR FALL IN TRAIN FIGHT ae Dead and Three I a Jared In West Virginia Flaht WELCH Va March Tay-or a deputy sheriff la dead A a former United Htates deputy marshal la dying and Beavers a leputy sheriff and Hickey were vounded in a revolver battle on a Nor-olk ft Western Railroad train early to- Bob Plvana who Is said to have' Joined tlie duel after Taylor had fallen dead ivlth five bullet wounds Is under arrest ere According to an official report of train conductor the shooting was the esult of a quarrel between Taylor and he Beavers Hickey Is said to have taken 10 part In It The coach was well filled vlth passengers but no others were vounded 1 ANOTHER LOBBY INQUIRY leasts Again Will Investigate leged Cases of Press are Al- WASH1XGTOX March Another xe-'Ival of the Senate lobby investigation to-lay was ordered Clarence De Knight Washington lawyer was summoned by rder of Chairman Overman to appear Thursday and testify concerning reports uf alleged activity at the capitol with reference to army and navy pay bills con-tracts anil otner legislative matters EMPLOYERS LIABLE Is Upheld by Indiana prente i'oart INDIANAPOLIS March lO-The Inliana liability law of 1911 was lectarcd conatltutlonal by the State Su-nme Court today The decision affirmed i verdict or 3120UU for Charles SUllwell of Vlorgan County against the Vandalia Kall-oad WOULD FREE IRON WORKERS MILWAUKEE Wis March Petl-tons seeking Iona seeking a presidential pardon for Reddin and other officials of the structural Iron Workers' Union from sen-ences Imposed In the dynamiting cases vere circulated today by members at ahor organizations HEEIIUTE EXCHANGES' USE OF THE MAILS Samuel Untermevers Idea of Regulating Future is FOR FEDERAL CONTROL Co un BULB efore Currency Committee5 i HIS MOTIVES QUESTIONED Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska QbIiim Lawyer on Hla Connection Wltk Snle of Kauawka ft Michigan Railroad Un ternary rr Says Effort Made to Observe Laws WASHINGTON' March Hearings on the pending stock exchange regulation bill were concluded today by the Senate banking and currency committee with Samuel Untermeyer who drew the measure at llie conclusion of the recent money trust investigation hearings as the only witness Mr Untermeyer appeared armed with a formal brief in support of the bill but got little chance to read from It Senator Hitchcock Insisted over the protests of Chairman Owen on probing -into the past activities of the witness as an organizer of corporations He did so he asserted to disclose the Inconsistency of Mr attitude in now urging the passage of the measure to declare Illegal methods by which he had profited Mr Untermeyer denied there waa anything illegal or Improper In the transactions cited so far as he was concerned at least These cases he declared had been used to attack him when the life insurance Investigation was In progress in New York and that recently had been exploited In Congress for the same purpose This personal matter cannot be considered pertinent to this Untermeyer Insisted "It Is a way to sidetrack not to mett the issues of the think If any one appeared before this committee who had spent hla whole life manipulating stocks hla testimony woui-1 be Interjected-Senator Untermeyer has been before us three times and three times he has been diverted from discussion of the bill by these personal Woald Limit Transactions "I recall a time when one of our best witnesses on a pending race track Mil yi reformed race track suggested1 Senator Nelson Senator Hitchcock abandoned his line oi questioning after the laugh which greeted Senator" remark and tiie se-alor explained that the witness was not to consider It a personal allusion Senator objected to the pending bill 4 falling to pYovide a remedy for dishonest manipulation of the market Senator Reed asked Mr Untermeyer if he did not believe all gambling transactions on stock exchanges should be prohibited The witness replied that the Ml limited these but that It would take a brave man to offer a more drastic one- "The abuse 1 have received would be a summer zephyr compared to whal Im would have to he said Untermyer explained that the Iwanawha ft Michigan transaction occurred about 10 years ago when be represented a "protective committee" of stockholders who refused to sell their holdings to the majority stockholders until the stock bad been dropped from the list of the New York Exchange They sold It he said at $170 or thereabouts a share He testified under questioning by Senator Hitchcock that the majority holders had paid only 370 per share or less for the other stock they had boughL by means of which the line finally was 'absorbed by the Chesapeake ft Ohio He denied that the committee held out its holdings for purposes of market manipulation Untermyer today appeared before the Senate banking and currency committee In reply to arguments against the Mil he has fathered for the regulation of stock exchanges Instead of the bill "Russianizing the (Continued on Fage 2 Sixth Column) ER SYNDICATE USED GIRL IS IIE Officials Dig Up' Yard of Hotel to Find Body SIX- SENT TO DEATH ful Concetta Coaxed TfiflfflPf? STABBED IN- THE BACK One of Bond Awaiting Exeeatlaa at White Plains One Lover Was Stabbed Caressed Coaeetta Then Disappeared IJ Confesses lie aad Woa (Herald Special) WHITE PLAINS -Y March In expectation of finding the body of Concetta' the mysterious young woman who waa used as a lure by the "murder that sent a half dozen- or more men to their death Coroner Alfred lies began today to dig up the yard back of the hotel owned by Charles Borabara on Tarry town Road Concetta disappeared soon after she placed a lighted lamp in a window of he hotel to signify that 1 all waa clear -for Philipo Carida to call upon her in her rooms Carida entered the hotel and as he caressed the beautiful Concetta he waa stabbed1 in the back -by hla enemies who were concealed behind a portiere' According to the confession- of Pietro Rebocci one of the "murder and who Is awaiting execution In the death house at Sing Sing on March 23 Concetta wee slain the same night and by the enemies of Carida whom she had favored by acting as the lure-for Carida They feared her-tongue silenced It with death burying the body In the yard In the rear of the hoteL': Rebaccl also informed District Attorney Weeks in his remarkable confession that Concetta had beet! assured that Carida was not to be murdered but that a secret he possessed was to be forced from him Instead however when sw saw Carida murdered as hla arms were about her she denounced hla enemies and -threatened to reveal the truth- Bsdy Thrown in Sewer' body waa carted to the Bronx Valley sewer and thrown In When found It resulted In -the arrest of Rsffaelo Bovs who was said to have- been the leader of ona faction In the vendetta and four other men who are now- held awaiting trial Bovs was convicted of manslaughter -and is serving seven years In-Sing Sing Tony Marro leader of the other faction and friend of Carida was trapped at about the same time -and '-Was shot in the bock and killed by Rebaccl crime for which Rebaccl is awaiting death Ra-baccl has stated In hla affidavit to tbe district attorney that he belonged to faction that Bovs and hte supporters had elected him to kill Marro and that when he failed To do so after two attempts he was warned that If Marro was not killed before a certain day the life of Rebaccl would be the forfeit clanmed by hla own band Marro was murdered the Cay before the time limit expired Concetta was a mysterious figure In the vendetta First he appeared on one side and then on the other She had been the chatelaine of Carida and also of Bovs st various times Carida wished her to leave hotel It was her prom-lee to do so If he would call for her on a certain night that led to hte death Sh placed a lamp In a window to Indicate to Csrlda that he might enter unmolested and take her Soon after the murders In the Tsrrytown road building Bom bars was mysteriously killed It was asld by Rebaccl that- he knew too much and It was decided to eliminate him Under the direction of Coroner lies workmen excavated In the hotel yard all of the day but because the ground Is frozen It waa slow work Deputy sheriff will remain on guard all of tonight and the excavation will continue tomorrow Rebaccl has even intimated that more bodies then that of Concetta will be found there Ruflgo Velasco federal commander-ln-chlef st Torreon and lieu Oearraasa hla cavalry genera -Federal machine gaa at Tr- Will FIGHT II KINTUGKY LEEISLIIURE Elections In tlie CoufflieisJV LEGISLATORS CRITICIZED Many I as a ranee Companies Have Left the State Since the Passing of the Drastic Law and-CItlsens la All Parts of Commonwealth Protest Special to The Commercial Appeal- FRANKFORT Ky March In a fight over the Frost bill this afternoon the wet 'and dry elements of the House tested each others strength but after a Iona parliamentary battle the drys won and the Frost Mil which provides that the signatures of 25 per cent of the voter in any county- can call a 1 dry election 1 in any precinct -of the same county passed the HoustT by a vote of 72 to 22 An effort was made by wet parliamentarians to substitute the state-wide prohibition bill of Representative Webb but the drya voted agalnst lt and the motion was lost 1 The wets were bitterly disappointed over 'the outcome but Thursday there is another larger fight- likely when the rules committee will report the Webb bill 'for disposition Several amendments have been mode to the Webb- bill- among them being one submitted by the -author of the bill providing that It- should become effective so far as retailing uf liquor la concerned in the state July 1 1917 and the manufacture of Uquori In Kentucky be discontinued after July 1 1919 After the above amendment had been submitted a motion carried to have the measure recommitted to the committee on constitutional amendments with Instructions to report Thursday morning at 11 o'clock Whether the drys will have strength enough to put over the Webb bill Is problematical Inasmuch as the bill looks to a constitutional amendment It must receive a two-third vote The Frost bill has already passed the Senate end now goes to the governor Bitter abuse has been heaped upon the Legislature from every section of the state for Its passage of the Greene-Glenn fire Insurance Mil Forty-five companies have signified their Intention of withdrawing from the field This leaves millions of dollars worth of property unprotected and business men fear a panic in the state as they are unable to borrow money on their stock In stores and warehouses as the buildings are without Insurance Three fire Insurance companies were cited today to appear before the state rating board and show why -their licenses should not be revoked The companies under the present law are amenable for court service for 12 months after withdrawal to the rating board TILLMAN Cos verms Ion Worse Tkaa Smoke elarea Seaator Caaaaalos WASHINGTON March "There are some things as objectionable as siiid Senator Cummins today while demanding that Senator Tillman be called to order for carrying on wholesale conversation during debater -Apparently feeling the thrust the South Carolina senator hastened to his seat His anfl-emoking resolution was passed yesterday L0EB BUILDING AFIRE Shop Damaged by Smoke and Water Several thousand dollars damage was done at the Loeb building corner of Monroe and Main by fire at 2:30 o'clock this naming The stock of Peiser the tailor and the barber shop adjoining suffered considerably from smoke and Water Employes of the Western Union Telegraph Company were In Ignorance of the fire until an alarm was turned In by a pass er by who saw flames bursting from a dow on the second floor Stork of Pelaer and Barber' obligation to make an effort to leaso the of the Memoers or me parry live in --railroad after It is built before the gov- Ico and others close thurdary llne eminent undertakes to operate It itself of the members of the party live In Mex- Hill positively refused to make the names Temperature Wind direction Wind velocity Precipitation i State of weather Ft- 84 SW IQ 68 8W 12 00 Cloudy Maximum temperature 70 decrees minimum 63: mean 62: normal 60 Precipitation since Jan 1- 511 Inches deficiency 631 Wednesday March Sun rises at 6:16 and seta at 5:04 Moon rises at 7 pm KOEHLER HAS BAD DAY Brother Officers Testify Against Aerated Major (International News Service) FORT TERRY March Strong testimony for the prosecution waa presented today- at the court-martial of Maj Benjamin Koehler when rebuttal witnesses were summoned Their stories according to information leaking from the secret trial proceedings were the severest bloya yet dealt the defense Among the witnesses today were CapL George Cocheu artillery engineer for this district and CapL Gordon Robinson quartermaster Both are stationed at Fort WrighL They have frequently come in contact with Maj Koehler both at Wright and Terry and unless attorneys for the accused succeed In shattering their testimony it is a foregone conclusion that a verdict of guilty of conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman at least will be rendered Several enlisted men Including sergeants and plain privates were also heard Others were held In reserve for tomorrow's session INVENTOR KILLS SELF Swiss Watchmaker Eads Life Wke Perpetaal Motion Device Falls Other senators Insisted however that the language already made this optlonaL THE FASTEST IN THE SOUTH Tbe Commercial Appeal's Two Newspaper Trains OLD I NEWSBOY Sotlr OLD MTSS leaves Memphis an th Illinois Central evsry morning st 3 Makes a fast run to Jackson Miss Connects at Grenada and Winona Durant and Jackson srlth trains for all parts of Mississippi Old Miss carries passengers and by using It travelers caa get to many points In Mississippi st- an early hour THE NEWSBOY leaves Memphis' every- morning at 3:45 and makes fast tun over th Southern to Huntsville Ala Connecting with other roads at Grand Junction Middleton Corinth Sheffield and Decatur The Commercial Appeal wants Its friends to us both ef these trains when possible Tne passenger equipment oa both the Old Miss and th -Newsboy Is first-clasa LOS ANGELES Cal March Carl Bryner aged 40 a Swiss watchmaker after 20- years of labor to perfect a perpetual motion watch today found hla Invention worthless and In a moment of despair ended hla life In hla room Bryner used a h'gh-power German rifle and the bullet that killed him passed on through the walls of two rooms a door and hurtled through a' passing "street car causing a momentary panic I-- i (Continued on Fage 2 First Column) i i I V'- t' I -w- It-:.

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