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Show DIES FROM I A BEATING . i- Prominent Chlcagoan Was 1 Assaulted Months Ago ; V by Unknown Thugs. ' CHICAGO. July 16. Edward D. Bangs, superintendent of city lines of the Western Union Telegraph company, who is supposed to have been beaten by thugs on the morning of November 28 of last year, is dead at Ms home of concussion con-cussion of the brain. Death waa a direct di-rect result of the injury suffered In November. Mr. Bangs was found unconscious un-conscious at La Salle and Van Buren streets early on the morning ot the supposed sup-posed attack and the police, thinking him to be intoxicated, placed him in a cell, where he remained for several hours without medical attention. No clue haa ever -been found to the identity of his assailants. By some the theory waa advanced that his Injuries were sustained In a fall. i |