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Show MYSTERY SEEN IN WIES DEATH Husband's Story of Drowning in Canoe Accident Not Accepted Ac-cepted by Police WASHINGTON. Sept. 11. Failure, to recover the body of Mrs Gertrude "lger Kuehllng and the discovery of1 several clrcumstnncea regarded bj Hi" police us worthy ot Investigation have converted her husband's story of drowning while canoeing with him on the Potomac river Vedndnv night. Into one of some mystriy Itoy liar-, per Kuehllng, the husband, watt held liv the police for Investigation i ikst HUSBAND TI i Interest has been added te- the case by 'he discovery that Mr.'. Kuehllng who wns the divorced wife o, limrr"' sgood of Detroit, and one of t'tf' helia to the million dollar estate of HSlsa beth ChaPelton of that city, recently had asked un attorney to file suit tor dr. oiee against her second husband. The find husband ai rived lp Washington Washing-ton to assist in running on; the many threads, assigning as his motive the Interest of their 1 -year-old child Kuehllng s story given io the police po-lice was that he lost control of the canoe in n bad stretch of water and In the darkness he lost all track of bis wife, wasting much of the time In which She might have been gaVfd In t ambling nt a inr coat under the cop-Bised cop-Bised hoiit nrftl which a few minutes before his w Ife, ho SsJdi had worn thrown over her shoulders. Rl ( OKI) IS M.AIK ilKD Kuehllng s arrest occurred n few hours after at their homo In Woodslde. Maryland B SUbUrb of Washington, on 0 technical charge of desertion from the army. That charge oxplalned away bv the t ecorils at the w ar dipailment. he was held for Investigation hlefly upon Information obtained by the police po-lice that his wife recently contemplated contemplat-ed divorcing him andthat only a few daya ago sue had been treated at a hospital for poisoning. Efforts of the police to find some one who had seen Kuehllng and his wife together Wednesday Wed-nesday night have failed, but have brought from the man from whom he tented the boat the statement that he was alone when he engaged It Kuehllng's recorel Includes an effort to obtain a place In the secret service and tin re are on file in the headejuar- 1 lers of the service two letter recom-1 mending him for such work, one signed sign-ed by Senator A. Ponierene and the ether by Senator Harding. Kuehllng and Mrs. m,'Ood were married December Decem-ber 30. 1910, at Mount Clemens. Mich |