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Show I FORGED HIS WIFE'S NAME TO I I NOTES AND THEN SUICIDED EjPJjffl SEATTLE, March 5. Adolph Klug, 1 uNB )l formerly City Treasurer of Seattle, who tmi - S was found dea1 on Januar lEt under jjj;u W circumstances which Indicated suicide, fllS vfl Is charged In two suits filed today In tho Vl. Superior court with having forgod tho $5 J names of bid wife and her brother, Wll- liam Rltterhoff. to notea aggregating considerably over $10,000. On December 31st, the day before he died, Mrs. Krag went to a bank which held one of tho notes, although her husband hus-band tried to dissuade her, and there ascertained tho facts. That afternoon Krug crossed Puget sound to Pleasant Beach, a few miles away from Seattle, and tho next morning was found dead In bed in the hotel at that place Tho suits aro to havo the notes doclorcd void. Krug was formerly Treasurer of tho city and opent a term In the penitentiary, peniten-tiary, being pardoned, however, bofore It was completed, for a shortage in his accounts. It was generally believed that ho was gullcy of no wrong Intont, and that ho wns the vlotlm of his frlendo, to , , whom ho loaned tho clty'o monay. |