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Show MEN THROWN OVER PRECIPICE Soldiers Charged With Desertion Now sBcllcved to Have 'Been Robbed and Murdered. Port Townsend, Wash. Tho finding of the decomposed body of a soldier at tho bano of a precipitous bluff near Fort Wordcn on Friday, near tho spot whero Private Robert B. Dumm's body had been discovered a week bo-fore, bo-fore, has led to a general Bearch of all tho country between the fort and town. Detachments of artillerymen aro scouring tho thickets and examining ex-amining every place on the bluffs that might lildo a body. During the past year a largo num her of men whoso tlmo was nbout tc oxplro havo disappeared, and have boon posted ns deserters. In every case the man had money and there was every reason why ho should not desert. Tho finding of tho two bodies, with pockets rifled, leads to the belief that these men nnd others woro robbed, rob-bed, murdered nnd thrown over the bluff. Tho man found Friday hnd been dead six months. Tho body has not been identified. |