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Show Crusader Hints Foul Play In Death Of Senator Walsh WASHINGTON, July 19 (I'.R) Suspicion that the late Thomas J. Walsh was murdered to keep him out of the Roosevelt cabinet was voiced today by Canon William Sheafe Cnase, veteran vice crusader. crusad-er. He linked his views on Walsh's death with a general indictment of what he alleged to be an allience between corrupt capital and the underworld in be'nalf of the liquor traffic. Chase told the Uniter Press he had been so convinced of the possibility pos-sibility of Walsh having died of poison that Vie endeavored to have a post mortem examination made. The Montana senator died en route from Cuba with his bride a few days before he would have become attorney general. The venerable churchman said : Walsh's death was attributed to acute indigestion and the symptoms symp-toms of poison would have toeen practically the same. He believed Walsh was ready to begin wholesale whole-sale prosecutions not only in the underworld but among financiers. He believed the plans of the attorney attor-ney general-designate were known to persons who had reason to fear Investigation. Chase named no names. He did not know whether a post mortem was performed. There was no record, rec-ord, of the time of such an examination exam-ination of the body. |