Show Col Winner Wilmer Midget Drowns Self After Losing Wife and Circus Job JobI I SAN FRANCISCO Ca Cal Dec 7 Colonel Noble United Press Press Colonel George Washington Winner was only twenty inches tall tail but butIn butIn butin in his breast there beat the heart of a man and he was lonely lIe He had memories of ot the sawdust sawdust saw saw- dust the tho big blA top rollicking laughing laughing laugh laugh- ing th thousands in the tho greatest show on earth but that was all They found his body Thursday It hadn't taken much water to drown him only about four Inches in a a. bathtub Colonel Winner in his lila da day had bul been as good a midget as ever stamped his tiny feet in a circus ring or bowed wriggled his snub nose and grinned at but but all aU that time he was alone except for tor his little wife wite And then she died There here came caine the time when the circuit no longer wanted him and i ho he retired In Ia San Francisco living with his nephew V. Frank D. D Carroll Carroll went out Wednesday eve ning and left lEct the midget alone Winner Innel drowned himself leaving I a brief note |