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Show 'mm mi MEETS DELAY I7ota From Woman Causes Investigation Into River Death BAT CITY. Mich.. Dec !. Arraignment Arraign-ment of Harold H. Mendell, 42. charged with the slaying of his closest frie nd. Kollen Morrran. ::r, whoso body was recovered from the Kawkawlln river August 9 Inst, was postponed late today until Monday. Mendell is being held incommunicado at the county jail. An admonition to investigate Morgan's Mor-gan's deuth, received at the sheriff's otfico from an unidentified woman, led to the charge against Mendell. according ac-cording to Sheriff Theodore Trude!'. j The sheriff said tho woman called j while ho was absent and told Mrs. Trudell that Morgan's death might not have been accidental Morgan's body was disinterred. Physicians Phy-sicians said ho had not been drowned but that a blow on the templo had rendered Morgan unconscious and that he had died from suffocation. That Mendell was in love with Morgan's Mor-gan's wife is an angle of the hase the prosecutor's of rice is Investigating, Investigat-ing, it was announced The Morgan and Mendell families are said to have been much together. Mrs. Morgan left here shortly after her husband s funeral, and is said to have iolned her parents in AlbdquerQue', N M. j Morgan was the father of three 1 children, the eldest seven years old. |