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Show MANY MYSTERIES I THE W81EJ FAMILY! Finding of Body of Spinster at Los Angeles Revives Old Stories. TOLEDO, Ohio, Jan. 31. The finding find-ing of tho body of Mary Warren in her apartment in Los Angeles, and the discovery that her sister Nanette had been living in the same room with the body, revives one of the mysteries in local police annals. The sisters lived here at the Warren homestead, 365 Fourteenth street, until they went to Los Angeles, nearly two. years ago. The mystery is tbo second in the "Warren family. In 187S Samuel Warren, father of the two girls and a retired manufacturer, manufac-turer, disappeared. Detectives scoured this and many other chies, searched the home and ovon dragged the cistern at the rear of tho residence. He had apparently dropped from the face of the earth. Five years later the wifo of Warren dropped dead of apoplexy. She had formerly been Mary Von Gorton of Berne, Switzerland. j The discovery in California leaves the I only sister, Nanette. Through the death of her sister she becomes heir to ap- proximately $500,000 in her own right. The property includes the Warren place IH in Toledo, tarmo on tho Maumee river, plantations and beet sugar interests in California and plantations in the south. Samuel Warren was one of tho pi-oneor pi-oneor business men in Toledo. He was born in Tecumseh, Mich., in .1818. IH An orphan at 18, without a relative, ho came hero and began working in a livery stable. He became owner of tho vM barn and later was noted in northern Ohio as a brooder of fine horses. He organized under his own name a buggy and wagon factor'. After accumulat-ing accumulat-ing a xortune he retired and later he disappeared. Tho disappearance of the father, it is said, atfected tho mind of the younger child, Mary. The spinster sisters lived in the family home for twenty-fivo years. Nanette was tho manager of the . fortuno. Tradesmen JM au,d real estate men say she trusted no man and attended to all the detailn of her property. Mary became violent and eventually lost the power of speech. Neighbors of tho Warrens say the elder woman refused to consider mar-riagc mar-riagc proposals on the ground that men were after her nione-. |