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Show uu EXPLOSION STORY OF SUICIDE TRACED SEATTLE. Wash.. June K. Canadian Cana-dian and United States authorities ure investigating, it became known today, ill alleged contession ol William Johnson .alias X. Prhnatehenk, that he caused the explosion of three P.rit-lsh P.rit-lsh ammunition thips in Ihe bar I r of Halifax. N S.. late in 1917. result ing in many deaths and great destruction destruc-tion in the city. Johnson committed suicide in a nneh spot on Loone creek in Skagit' county. Washington, last month The supposed contession federal agents hero said loday, was uiado by J. R. Cox. a mine watchman, a few weeks before Johnson killed himself Cox immediately notified American and Canadian authorities who have since been conducting a caioiul investigation, investiga-tion, ll has been established that Johnson graduate of a European university uni-versity and an expert chemisl was in Halifax at the time of the explo slon. according to officers, a quantity oi alleged radical literature vas found in his effects after his death 1 |