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Show RESERVOIR MAY HOLD THE DEAD i Yonkers, N. Y., March 1 Sixty million gallons of water, the contents of the nig Fort Field reservoir, will be emptied fo ascertain whether a suicide sui-cide note found on the banks of the reservoir several days ago was a hoax. As Yonkers Is lii the rnldst of a typhoid fever eol.lemic caused by impure im-pure water, the health department declares de-clares that nothing must be left undone un-done to determine whether a human body really lies at th bottom of the reservoir. Repented dragging of ihe bottom with grappling books hps failed to bring up any trace of the supposed suicide. Dynamite cannot J be used because of the danger to the j concrete bottom and sides of the I reservoir. I If a hoax Ihe sulelde letter will be a costly ono for emptying the reser- voir will cost nearly $5,000. |