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Show I oo PRIVATE MURPHY FALLS TO DEATH Slips From Third-story Window Win-dow and Dies From Ter- j rible Injuries. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 15. Private W. S. Murphy, Jr., medical corps, died in a military hospital here today from injuries resulting when he fell from the third story window of an apartment apart-ment house, fracturing his skull, breaking both legs and his collar bone and suffering internal complications. Murphy had been sleeping on a couch following a dinner party, according ac-cording to Mrs. Grace Fritchley, who said she was a member of the party. Mrs. Fritchley said she awakened the soldier and when he moved over to a window sill to removo his shoe he slipped out. Murphy was 29 years old and son of the postmaster at Gardner, Kan. |