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Show PAIR WOUNDED; KEEP SILENCE Police Suspect Suicide Pact, Lives Hanging in Balance. PCKKIl' 11. S J . . March IS Seriously wounded and with their lives I hanging in the balance. Mrs. Viola I Gravatl 3 r.4 and W illiam Feltmah, i C. baffled Freehold authorities with I their refusal to tell how they received their hurts. The police are working rota the theory that Keltman and Mr.-. Oravatt, who Is the wife of William iGravatt, soupht Relf-de:iiructlon In .1 : suicide pact. j Mrs. Gravatt staggei'ed Into her I home lot Tuesday with a bullet in her breast. At about the same. time Felthtan, it was learned, stumbled from his motor car In front of his home, at Clarkeburg. 0 i)ni.. and dropped to the street, unconscious His wrist was badly slashed and he had lost much blood from severed arteries. ar-teries. County Detective John m. smith said he had followed a trail of blood from ;i clump of trees to lh Gravatt hove. R quarter mile away. He found also, a revolver, with one chamber empty, in Mrs. Gravatt's home. Bullets of similar sim-ilar calibre to that fired into Mr?. Gravatt's chest were In the tnegazflH and there was evidence thai the weapon weap-on had been discharged recently. Both refused to make statements concerning the manner In which they recIVed their wounds, Feltmah was removed to a Trenton hospital and Is reported In a prei arlous condition The police .in Investigating tin . lr-oumstances lr-oumstances of Mrs. Gravatt's abgencc from home for five months prior to February Foltrnan was reported as having been missing during the sarin; period. |