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Show PROMINENT PRIEST MUnDEnBD. round In a llooru In New York Atler llelof Mlailng Hserral llaja. The body of a man found late Friday night In a house on Ninth avenue, New York, has been Identified ss that of the Iter. IMward S. l'hllllps of HL. Gabriel church, Hatleton, l'a., who recently had a conference with J. I'. Morgan In reference to the threatened strike In the Iron and cosl regions of 1'eunsylvanla. The coroner asys that the Identification can hardly be questioned, ques-tioned, aa papers found on the boil" sesm lo provo It. The police are work-lug work-lug on what may prove to be a murder. Kirk Stanley, a massage operator, lr whose rooms the body was found, In under arrest aa n auspicious person. Decomolt!ou had advanced ao far when the body wna discovered that e cursory examination waa nut aufllclent to reveal ihe cause of death, and oc autopsy waa ordered, Stanley haa been aubjected to rigid examination and Is said to have toll", conflicting stories. Mrs. llernlus, from, whom Stanley leased four rooms, in one of which the body wss found, says that her tenant claimed to be from Sao Francisco, and called himself "Dr. Stanley." He was accompanied by a young woman whom he Introduced aa his nlfe. The body naa discovered In a pool of blood by Mrs. llernlus' daughter, daugh-ter, who went Into Stanley's apart-menta apart-menta to remove aome bedding which naa hanging out of the window, 'tho police were Immediately notified and a acarch of the body disclosed a number of papers. Among them was a letter from John Mitchell, president of the United Mine Workera, and addressed lo the Her. IMward B. l'hllllps, llazletou. Thero were also several telegrams from Mitchell, a half-rate coupon auch as is Issued to clergymen, and several receipts re-ceipts made out In Dr. l'hilllps'name. |