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Show Friend Believes Missing Butler Was of Weak Mind LOS ANOELES, Cal . Feb. 10 Be-lief Be-lief ih.it Edward F Sands, allaa Edward Ed-ward Kltz Strathmore. missing former secretary-butler to William Usmond Taylor, was mentally deranged, was expressed horc by George H Krettner, who claimed close acquaintance with him. At one time, according to Hrettner. Sands was considering a foreign nay or going to South America as he was becoming restless and wanted a change. QUEKR REM AUK "I don't know what I'd do If I lost my Job and didn't hae any mpney," Urcttner quoted Sands as saying. "When I get to be KG years old I'm eo-( Ing to blow my head off, I don't see any use of peoplx living after that age. They're not good for anything. I used to bo chief petty officer In the quartermaster corp. aboard ships and' I guess I might as well enlist and be taken care of until I'm ready to shoor' myself." Sands always carried a heavy calibre revolver. Brettner said. One morning Urettner went into Sands' room and found Sands aaleep He touched the, sleepor on the shoulder t", au.tk.-n him and Sands Instantly sprang up and: shoved the revolver against Hr-Hners body, he aald. Then, seeing who Itl wan. he went back to bed and to sleep. FOUOI HI NT GIIU- "Sands was keeping company with a girl who frequently went to a certalni public dance hall" Brettner continued He seemed Infatuated with hr ' He weighed abmit I ' pounds, but was trying to reduce. "He used to read the encyclopedia I a great deal. "8ometlme he would refuse toi speak to me for days. Then he would apologize and say he had been depressed" de-pressed" Brettner said a waiter at a raf, two blocks from the Taylor apartments was a 'double of Sands" and this might account for statements that Sands had ien seen In Ios Angeles shortly be-, fore the murder It was understood that the police had been making efforts to locate the! girl with whom Brettner said Sands had been Infatuated |