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Show - 7 " " " " r..:i-9 to Jlc:-;t Tl.-:r7 cf JTjI.IIj ia C:3 cf tlj T. i r : : "11. EAST, LIVEr.rc.OU O., aJru 17. Friend3 In this city of the late George Barclay Mercer, known to the baseball world as "Winnie"- Mercer, and his mother, are firmly of the opinion that Mercer did not commit suicide,- but was murdered. After much dlscusson on the part of George Y. Tavis, manager of the team on which Mercer first played; George Carr of the Washingtons, and . other close friends, a telegram was sent last : night to the Chief of Police of San Francisco asking him to make a close investigation. Frionds declare that the letters given out were not written 'by Mercer, who never signed himself "Winnie," and that the recent attempt to rob him of $3000 shows that desperate men were after him.. The letter to his mother mentions his sisters, and. he had none. As for a shortage, they scout the Idea, as he had property and also friends by the hundreds, who would have backed him for any amount. |