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Show SEEKING TO CLEAR MURDER MYSTERY WILKKriSBARRE, Pa.. July 1" - Every effort is being made by the local authorities authori-ties and members of tne state constabulary constabu-lary to clear the mystery surrounding the death of Alice Crispell. the eighteen-year-old air! whose body was discovered In Harvey's lake last Monday. Neatly half a hundred witnesses have been summoned to appear at the Inquest tonight. Search Is still being conducted for possible rival suitors who may have attacked thexrtrt after her sweetheart. Herbert Johns, left her on ths night of July 4. Johns, who waa taken Into custody shortly after the body was discovered, continues to protest his Innocence. Widely varying theories are being advanced ad-vanced to account for the girl's death. Thoee who believe Johns Innocent assert that another man may have killed the girl, or that she waa seised with a fainting faint-ing rpell and fell into the lake accident-slly. |