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Show chose. He was last seen alive on Wednesday, September 27, at Uanarcb, as if waiting for a car. BODY OF MISSING MAN IN CLUMP OF BUSHES. PHILADELPHIA. Oct. 4.-The body of Peter H. Thompson, the wealthy New Yorker who has been missing from the private sanitarium ot Dr. I. P. Roberts, at Llanaxch, was found today In a clump of bushes In a stAp of woodland Just back 'of Haver ford. Pa., near here. In his right temple was a bullet hole, and beside him was a revolver with one chamber emptied. The body was in an advanced state of decomposition. Michael Deaney of Philadelphia made the discovery, and will now claim the reward re-ward of $100 which was offered by Francis Fran-cis H. Sloan of New York, a brother-In brother-In law of the dead man. In the pockets of the dead man were found $10.44 and a gold watch and chain. The missing man was formerly vice-president vice-president of the Peter Adams Paper company, com-pany, a New York concern, and he lived at S.11 Hancock street, Brooklyn. He. retired re-tired from active business about six years ago. Recently h suffered from nervous prostration, and came to a sanitarium at Llanarch. Pa., near naverford. He was permitted to dome and go as he I i i |