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Show PS a5F(Y iN DEATH OF . : ,' !. PnQWINENT ; YOUNG MAN Foul Play or Suicide May : ': Have Brought-Walter ; Basil Packer to His End; Funds Ran Low. NEW YORK, June 8. It has Just been learned that "W. Parker of San Francisco," who was found dead In a Broadway hotel Sunday "morning, was Walter Basil Packer, a graduate of ( Harvard university, and said to be . a member of the Bohemian club of San Francisco, one of the most exclusive organisations or-ganisations on the coast Packer was prominent In legal circles before coming to New York a little more than a year ago. What business brought him East Is not known, but until, within a few dayst his acquaintances say, he has appeared ap-peared to be will supplied with funds. . A Coroner's physician .who examined the body found that death was caused by acute gastritis. Induced by some agency with which he was unfamiliar. The stomach is being analyzed. . Packer, who. was about 82 years old, made many friends during his short res- . idenee here, but they never learned much of his private affairs outside of the fact that he was a member of the party In San Francisco that subscribed to the late Ill-fated expedition which went in search of buried treasures on Cocos Island, Iri the Southern Pacific "- Two or three weeks dfcp he ran out of money, and complained that his remittances remit-tances had been delayed. He became melancholy,, and his friends had seen him infrequently since that time. |