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Show !9B LIFE BY LEAP FROM DECK DF SHIP American, Whose Balloon Once Sailed Over Home Farm, Cornnils Suicide. BODY NOT RECOVERED Auto Expert Leaves Leller for Cap lain of Boat Before Jumping' Overboard. PAIS If?', Nov. 14. American Connul Mason has been notlllrd from Calais that It la believed thai ICdward 11. .Mix, u well-known sportsman, commuted sul-i-ido by Jumping from a channel steamer .Sunday nlchl. iSlr. Jlix' home was in Columbtuv O. Ho had bcr-n engai;ed In business hi Parlft for ma ny years-, and being a member of both the Aero Club of I'Vanco and the Aorf Club of Aui'-'rli-a. bad represented both 'ouiitrles in international contests. He was a noted aeronaut and won tho InleinalloiKil balloon race at Zurich, Switzerland, on October 5, 1900. Tho report of his supported death camo from the Krench maritime Inspector at Cain If. .lie said he believed Mr. Mix baa jumped from I ho mail boat, whleli Icr-Dover Icr-Dover for Calais at 11 o'clock Sunday night. Mix left a letter to the captain of the schooner indicating bin intention to end Ills life. Friends of Mr. Mis say that if he took his life the act can be explained ex-plained only on the ground of overwork. Kdsar AY. Mix was born in Franklin county, a few miles west of Columbus. He. was a graduate of Ohio Stale Unl-ersll" Unl-ersll" Mix had not been in Columbus for a lone Mine, but while participating in a balloon race which started In St. Louis several years ago, his balloon sailed directly di-rectly over the farm on which lie was born and he dropped a note to the aunts who occupied I ho old homestead. Twelve Knirlls-li hIiIII iiiitm Crilwiiil SP.1 were found In Mix's effects. The letter to tho captain of the mail boat requested him to forward the writer's coat to Pierce Habllzip:, his secretary, In Paris Tho secretary today said Mix had started for London lo attend a conference of automobile au-tomobile engineers. Mix was unmarried and lived in an apartment at 12 Boulevard Des Invalids. Until November 1 he was chief engineer in the French branch of tho Thompson & Houston Electric company, when he resigned to go with the Dot roil concern. Consul General Mason telegraphed to Consul Mllner at Calais to forward the letter for the captain, so that it might he compared with known handwriting of the supposed suicide and also to do everything ev-erything possible to Hnd the body, which is thought to bo near the English coast. Hart O. Perg. a personal friend of Mix, said this evening that ho could not Im-aglno Im-aglno a reason for the reported suicide. Mix, he said, was not a, robust man, and sometimes appeared to stirrer from neurasthenia, neu-rasthenia, but he was not 111 and seemed enthusiastic over his automobile business. Up to midnight nothing further had been learned which might aid in clearing the mystery of Mix's disappearance A London dispatch suid that Mix left the hotel where he had been stopping on Sunday night to proceed to Paris. It was on Sunday night's channel boat that the letter and his coat were found. What became of Mix's baggage is another an-other mystery- |