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Show SAN FRANCISCAN DROWNED IN CRYSTAL LAKE SPRINGS. SAN MATEO, Sept 22. Arthur Sloane Of San Francisco was drowned in Crystal Springs lake recently and the Query is whether the tragedy was the result of accident or suicide. Sloane was employed by the Spring Valley Water company. He was mlsaed from the party in the early afternoon and a search was organised at a point where the banks are very high and precipitous. His hat was seen floating float-ing on the water, which is thirty feet dep there. Several hours later the body was recovered recov-ered by dragging and sent to Coroner Crowe, whp will make an investigation. W. B. Lawrence, local superintendent for the company, thinks that Sloane lost his balance or was seised with sickness and tumbled over the cliff. Sloane's parents live in Ireland, but he has a brother and a sister In San Francisco. |