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Show STRANGER KILLS SELF INJM Body, With Bullet Hole in Head, Is Found in a Vacant Lot. Special to The Tribune. OGDEX, Auff. 13. With his head resting rest-ing in a pool of blood, which had run from the hole made by a bullet which had passed through his head, and a revolver re-volver clutched in his right hand, the j body of a man believed to be William Miller, about 70 years of age, was found at 2:45 o'clock this afternoon in a vacant lot at the corner of Polk avenue and Twenty-seventh street, by Orson Doug- . las, who was in the district looking at some property. The poiice say the man probably took his own life. Jackson was driving in an automobile across a vacant Jot upon which was cuti-Mdcrable cuti-Mdcrable oak brush, when he came upon the bodv of the aged man lying upon his back. Jackson left his automobile and, making sure the man was dead, telephoned tel-ephoned to the police. The police investigated and found the man had a card of $1 in thrift stampa, upon the cover of which was the name of William lliiler. In the pockets were J-,4, in four ten-dollar bills, and J4 in silver. There also was a blank check upon the National Bank of Salina, Kan. There were no other articles by which identification could be made. The man was clad in working clothes. The coat was purchased at Lniion, Mont. The bodv was removed to the Kirken- drill undertaking parlor, where it will be I held until positive identification i3 ob-j ob-j tai.ned. |