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Show SCOUTS SUICIDE IDEA Friend of Edwards Says He Feared Assassination. NEW YORK. Jan 10. "I, probably Ihe last of t'harles A. Edwards' friends In New York City to see him alive, never saw a man In a more sane menial men-ial condition than h was at the time of our la.-t meeting. Just previous to his departure for New Haven That he committed suicide seems to me to be beyond thf pale of possibility " This statement was made last night by Dr A. R. Iedoux, a friend from boyhood of th- man whose mysterious death In New Haven Is puzzling the country. i met Mr Edwards about 5 o'clock of the day of his departure for New Haven," saltl Dr. Ledoux "It waH plainly evident to me that h was in a state of excitement Whit is the matter Charlie? I asked him. " 'I am starting for New Haven, and I am In trouble.' he said. "Th?n. with much reluctance, he told nif of threats thet had been mnde against his life. " Dr. Ledoux says that Mr Edwards told him whom he feared and that he had been warned not to go to Men Haven Ha-ven again. |