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Show Alaska Slaying Puzzle Grows ANCHORAGE, Alaska. Sept 19 UP Federal officers who sine Friday had hunted Mrs. F. W. Jenkins, Jen-kins, 45, as th key figure in a mining camp triple slaying believed be-lieved to hav revolved around a each of $200,000, found her body today on th tundra of southeastern southeast-ern Alaska. Th officers offend no theory ai to the cause of her death and details of th discovery were lacking. lack-ing. Last week John Clark, a miner, ram upon th body of Richard Francis, 60, a prospector, with two bullets In his brain. He informed in-formed V. S. District Attorney Joseph Jo-seph Keho. En route to Francis cabin Keho and Investigators stumbled across the bodies of F. W. Jenkins, SO. and Joy Brlttell, 25. Th men's throats were slashed. Kehoe then sought Mrs. Jenkins, but she, too, had disappeared. The last entry in her diary, on September Septem-ber 10, indicated that her husband and Brittell had gone to Clark's cabin. Miners of the district related re-lated there had been considerable 111 feeling between Francis and Jenkins. Jenkins, they said, had concealed 1200,000 near his cabin because he "didn't trust banks.'' |