Show n City Treasurer n Accounts Probed BEAVER TO TOOK POISON pm N AT HOME HOM OF f DOGCATCHER DO Was First Believed to Have Died of Natural Natural Nat Nat- ural Causes AUDITORS AT WORK Careful Check Being Made of Accounts City Treasurer Max Beaver who was reported by the police to have died of heart trouble Tuesday at atthe atthe the home of Ernest J. J Colvin city dog catcher East Third South street committed suicide by taking cyanide of potassium the officers declared Thursday afternoon This conclusIon was reached following following fol- fol lowing a report made by State Chemist Herman lIerman Harms in which the latter said he found traces of poison In Beavers Beaver's stomach How ho- ho took the tle poIs poison n Is still a mystery Detective Chester Colborn Colbom report reported Tuesday that h he made t. t II la 1 p. p glass or otier in J. J ne near r- r Beavers Beaver's chair and reported that tIle tue man had met a natural death Circumstances developing after th the start o of a special audit of th city treasurers treasurer's books caused the city commission to order an autopsy performed on the body Wednesday and the viscera was sent to the chemist and the discovery of the poison was announced Thursday Thursday morning es 0 of the tho city treasurers treasurer's office city audItors audItor's auditors audI audI- tors tor's office and the city recorders recorder's office found that they were locked out they arrIved at o'clock and a policeman was standing in the corrIdor Commissioner Charles N. N Fehr said that in view of the fact that thata a t special audit w was s in progress It was deemed advIsable that none of the regular be present while the work was beIng done Time The special audit started March 1 The city commissIon went into session In tIme the mayors mayor's office of- of fice behind closed doors followIng Its ta regular public session Alvin city auditor N. N Casella who is making a special audit of the city office and ColvIn were called in and questioned Time The police announced that they ire are conducting an investIgation of the he poisoning Colvin was questioned ques- ques by Chief of Police Joseph E. E Burbidge and Commissioner T. T T. T Burton late Thur Thursday day in an a tempt empt to discover what might have become of 0 the container from the ho poison was taken Colvin informed Chief Burbidge that hat the tho city city- treasurer had first gone to the office ot of R R. N. N Young in iii the Deason buildIng morning and had complained corn com of trouble with his heart ColvIn said ho he received a tele- tele phone hone call from Beaver asking him to 0 come and take him to time the Colvin home mome Beaver lie he said had been advised by Young YUng to take a little tincture of digitalis a heart med med- cine leine ColvIn said ho took De Beaver ver to tomis his mis apartments and returned tp the he city and county buIlding Just about noon he said he received a telephone call from Beaver I will not see you again Beaver declared according to ColvIn ll it Colvin Dont do It dont don't do I will be back home at Colvin said that when he reached his mis home Beaver was dead but there hero was no bottle nearby |