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Show -uu NIGHT WATCHMAN IS FOUND DEAD Discovered With Bullet Through Head at Washington Washing-ton Bureau Offices. WASHINGTON. April 4. James King, night watchman at the offices of the committee on public information, found dead early today with a , bullet hole through his head. Officials Offi-cials of the committee thought he had been murdered. Examination of King's pistol indicated indi-cated that he had tried to fire it and that the cartridge failed to explode, officials said no valuable papers are kept at the committee's offices and that they could find nothing to show-that show-that the place had been ransacked. The police arrested a negro em- Jploye at the committee's offices. They i said that King and the negro had quarreled. Suggestions that King was killed by j someone in search of papers containing contain-ing war secrets were made, but the police after an examination of the place said they 'did not believe this , was the case. rr . |