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Show REV. fll'FARLAND SOUGHT BY POLICE PITTSBURG. Jan 15. Rev W. D. McFarland, formerly head of the academic aca-demic department of tho Pittsburg high school, known throughout educational edu-cational circles, is being sought by the Pittsburg police tonight in connection con-nection with tho death In a local hospital hos-pital of Elsie Dodd Coe, 23 yoars old. Miss Goo had been Dr. McFarland's secretary. Bofoio her doath sho mado an ante-mortem ante-mortem statoment In which sho Implicated Im-plicated Dr. McFarland and A. Rollln McConnell, who Is now employed In tho Wostlnghouso offices In Chicago At an Inquest today ovldonco waB prcsontcd to shov that Dr McFarland loft here In 1910 to take up Missionary work In Tennessee According to tho young woman's statement, Dr McFarland Mc-Farland was known to her mothor and sister as a physician and twlco slnco ho loft this city had returned at hor request The coronor's Jury found that the young woman died of peritonitis superinduced su-perinduced by malpractice ' Mr McFarland, who Is about 60 ' years old, was at one time engaged In educational work and later was president of a small western college oo |