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Show MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF FREDERICK A. BURXUAM NEW YORK, Dec, 23 Frederick A. "Burnham, former president of the Mutual Reserve Life Insurance company, was found dead in bed in his homo at 6S East Seventy-eighth street, this morning, of gas poisoning. The police say death was duo to suicide. Tho Mutual Reserve went Into tho hands of receivers In February lasL President Pres-ident Burnham, his brother, George Burnham, Jr., the treasurer of tho company, com-pany, and George D. Eldredge, tho actuary, actu-ary, wore indicted on charges of larceny and forgery which grew out of an alleged al-leged payment of the funds of tho company com-pany In satisfaction of personal claims against some of Its officers. Tho Burnham family physician who reached the homo a few moments after Mr. Burnham was found, said the enso undoubtedly was one of accident. |