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Show MOTIVE FOR VAN WYCK TRAGEDY New York, Sept. 0. Tho coroner's Inquest today Is expected to shed little lit-tle new light on what motive led William A. Chllds, Jr to murder Miss Catherine Van Wyck and then commit com-mit suicide last night at the girl's summer home in Quogue, L. I. Jealousy Jeal-ousy and the anger of a rejected suitor suit-or iro the causes generally ascribed by their friends. Just before Childs shot Miss Van Wyck and then himself, they wore walking together. The youth wau talking excitedly and waving his arm0- and the girl was emphatically 6hak- Ing her head. Miss Van Wyck belonged to a prom- J inent Brooklyn family and wns relit- J cd to former Mayor Robert A, Van i Wyck and Former Supreme Court Justice AusuBtus- Vnn Wyck of New 1 York. Her father formerly was connected con-nected with the Standard Olf com- j pany and Is rated wealthy. Chllds had known tho girl since childhood. He would have been graJ- 1 uated from Princeton next year. Hir. tl father was an Inventor, prominently L connected with the development of the telephone. The Chllds family j had recently given up their home it ft Englcwood, N. J., and was preparing f to move to California. f 00 Tampa, Fla., has 10,000 cigarmak- j ers. j |