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Show LOS ANGELES MAN IS MURDERED NEAR HOME Fred Nelson Snot Down in a Manner Which Has Bewildered the City Detectives. LOS ANGELES, Sopt. 18. Fred Nelson, Nel-son, 85 years old, an employeo of an automobile company, was nrardorod' today to-day a few steps from Lib tome at Florence Flor-ence station, a suburb of L03 Angeles, in a manner which bewildered detectives. detec-tives. Ho had kissed Ms wife and children goodby as usual and started for the car lino nearby. A few minutes later hie body, with a bullot holo in tho back of his iiead and with both haudB thrust into hia trouB-cr's trouB-cr's pockets, waa found by a man, who had left his house to try to atop the howling of a dog in. the Btreet, NoIbou had been smoking a cigar. It was still in hia mouth and still burning. burn-ing. Two foot from the dead man was" a revolver which, had been dropped by the murderer. Mrs. Nelson told the pollco a stranger strang-er had haunted tho neighborhood for several days. So far aa she know her husband had no oncmioB. |