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Show SUSPECT MAY HAVE COWOTIED SDICIDE (Special to The Telegram. OQDEN. March 11 Mystery aurreunda tha auddea dssth last ntaht of Joha J. Wall, ana of the two men arrested en suspicion of having held up the clerk of the Reed hotel here early thia weak. The body of Wall waa found oa the floor of hie cell In the cltr jail, arms crossed and hi hat over hi face, not more than twenty mlnutee nfter he had been having a good tlms talking to fellow fel-low prisoner. Beside him wee a emelt bottle which had contained a dark fluid, and It la- thouaht eulclde waa the cauM of death. - To determine this aa eu toper I being conducted thia afternoon by City Physician Anna Rles. There wes a little lit-tle of the fluid remaining In the bottle whea it waa found nnd It will be turned over to the atate chemist to determine what It I. Th preliminary hearing of Wall and John Bovd. which waa to have been held today, was postponed until near week. - In connection with the robbery It 1e Mid that Wall had practically confessed tht he was guilty. Thia morning the police found a box which had been atoten from th hotel end had contained too In cash. This had been broken Into and thrown Into ths vacant Ctahaa, akatlng rink, across the. streetf mm th Reed hotel. Another box. In which bed been 121. waa found two biorke south of the hotel, ft had been broken open and all the money excepting 71 cents removed. Tbl morning Prank Wellihaw. who haa been under eorvelllance of the police po-lice for several days, was pieced tn Jell It la not known lust wahe the cause of this action Is on the part to the police. |