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Show IS FOUND 'DYING IN PARK , Englishman Either Shot by Thieves or Attempted At-tempted Suicide New York, Jan. 12. Notwithstanding Notwithstand-ing a bullet wound through hla body at a point two inches above tho heart, It was' said at Roosovolt hospital today to-day that Robert Osborn Hllliard. tho Englishman who was found dying In Central park last night, hla white ehlrt 6taJned with bUvd. would probably recover. re-cover. Although Hlllittjd said that ho had been attacked and shot by a robber, rob-ber, the police are inclined to think that the case is one of attempted suicide. sui-cide. After some search the revolver which was at first reported missing, waa found near the scene of tho shooting with one chamber empty. The weapon was f .3$ calibre. It had been discharged at such close range that It had Ignited the wounded man's clothing wbloh was smouldering when he was found. As the polio? examined letters and newspaper clippings found on Hll-llard's Hll-llard's person, It was learned that ho I had been a guest of tho Duke of New- castlo. at Hot Springs. Ark . and also ' at New Orleans. One letter was a notlco from ' the office of J. Plei pont Morgan & Company, notifying Hllliard that there was twenty pounds sterling ' at that office to his credit, received from tho London agents of the firm of j Couttes & Company. I Hllliard, who Is reputed to bo I wealthy. Is well known at tho Waldorf-1 Waldorf-1 Astoria, from where he set out last evening In evening attire, apparently In good spirits. He Is known to be In mining in the West, and It Is said that he has an office In Denver. His age is forty years, and his appearance distinguished. During the excitement incident to the finding of the prostrato form, the wounded man's name was given out hs Hi Hard, but his papers . shown Hllliard to be correct. |