Ogden Daily Standard | 1917-07-06 | Page 8 | German Agent in China Kills Self

GERMAN AGENT IN CHINA KILLS SELF NEW YORK, July 5, Richard Adam Timmerscheidt, representative of German Ger-man commercial interests in China, committed suicide here today by jumping jump-ing from his rooms on the tenth floor of a bachelor apartment house. He had first slashed his wrists with a razor blade. Timmerscheidt, who was said to have been at one time an agent for the Russian government, took out his naturalization na-turalization papers here in December, 1914. He was apparently a man of considerable wealth. No motive for tho suicide has been ascertained by the police. I oo It is estimated that since the war began down to October, 1916, 998,500 women, or 30.6 per cent of tho number employed in July, 191-1, had been drawn into various governmental industrial in-dustrial and commercial activities in Great Britain, and that in October, 1916, 933,000 women hId directly replaced re-placed men in industrial plants.