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Show HELD FOR OEATH OF YOUMi LADY Manager of Transportion Company Com-pany Entertains in Absence of Wife Tragedy Occurs. SEATTLE, Wash.. March 17. Eugene Eu-gene P. Erckenbrack, assistant manager mana-ger of the Border Line Transportation company, is held in the city jail today pending investigation of the shooting to death early this morning of Miss Mabel Howe, aged 19, maid at the Erckenbrack home. Erckenbrack telephoned to the police po-lice that Miss Howe had committed suicide, using his pistol, because he had reproached her for misconduct with another man. Erckenbrack told tho police there had been a party at his home last night, in the absence of Mrs. Erckenbrack. Erckenbrack says he caught Miss Howe in tho embrace of a young man, a guest, and after the party Erckenbrack delivered a moral lecture to the girl. She became excited, ex-cited, he said, and shot herself. |