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Show CLEARING. UP ! A MYSTERY Body Found in a Trunk Is That of Missing j Artist ?s'ew York, Dec. 2. Commissioner Flynn of the central office announced todav that tho body of the man found lu tho trunk In the cellar of a west side house recently had been positively posi-tively Identified as that of Albert C. Calller, tho missing artist. The trunk was left at tho department house by William Lewis, a waiter, who Is missing. miss-ing. Commissioner Flynn said a physl " clan told the artist wrote in June ol 1902, saying he was living with lwla In West Sixty-third street. Commissioner Commis-sioner Flynn said: "I bcllcvo Collier was killed In that house and bit body placed in tho trunk. "As soon as ho got Calller'n letter, the doctor told me Lowla called on him and said Qolller had gone homo to his parents in Dampclerro do Jur-ra, Jur-ra, France. "'After Lewis left me.' the doctor said, 'I found that my wallet, containing contain-ing a check and a small amount of cash, was mlsslnc and I bollcvt; Lewis Lew-is stole It.' " The doctor said that for nearly ten years Collier's parents have been trying try-ing to find him. |