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Show MIT OFFICER BEATEN TO DEATH POLICE GET CLUE Badly Bruised Body of Major. Once Gassed, Found in Brush WASHINGTON, bet 2?. Police declared de-clared todaj thej wen- in possession I of information which they expected to lead to prompt Identification of a body of a man found on the outskirts of Washington and believed to be Major Frank M Scanland, of Louisville, Ky., who served with the A E l Tin body, badl" bruised, was found in a clump of unib rgrowth and police today advanced the theory that the man had been tajren to the edge of tho1 city In an automobile, beaten to death and the body dragged into the brush i The man apparently had been dead about three days. WATERTOWN, x. v.. Ofet Major Ma-jor P. H .Scanland, found slain near! Alexandria V i.. last nigh' had been in I the United States army about year.-. He was stationed at Oswego. N. V.J with the 2Zrd Infantry In 1913. Eiuring the world war be wae gassed gass-ed and recently had bet"' 1 ndergolngj treatment at Fort Bliss, Kl Paso. Tex. oo I |