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Show while he talked wildly. Hefote the others could interfere, they said, he placed the revolver to his head and flred. Death followed quickly. Following the shootins, Ames was placed tinder arrest, but. the preliminary prelimin-ary Investigation of the special board of Inquiry having cleared him, he was released The only witness of the tragedy werA Col. Atr.es and Mrs Janney. Mr. .Janney testified that her husband and Ames had been good friends. . i Lieut. Ames Is Ordered Court Martialed at Ft. McKinley Manila, May IS. Upon instructions from Washington, Lieut. Col. Robert F. Ames was today confined to quarters quar-ters and will be court martialed on charges of conduct unbecoming an officer of-ficer and to breaches of military discipline. dis-cipline. The action is a sequel to the in-vestlcatlon in-vestlcatlon of the circumstances which led Lieut. Clarence M. Janney of the Twelfth infantry, V. S- A , to take his life following a dinner party at the home of Ames at Fort William McKinley. Mc-Kinley. The Bjicldo'8 wifs remains at the fort and probably will be the thief witness at the court martial. A Filipino coroner and an army board of luq-Jiry found that Janney committed suicide and no reported to Major General Wlllinm H. Carter, commander of the Department of Luzon. Lu-zon. After examining the (Indices, tho general returned them to the board with instructions thnt It obtain ob-tain additional testimony coverlug certain features. No further develop-ment8 develop-ment8 were made public until the receipt re-ceipt of the Instructions from Washington Wash-ington today. Janney's death occurred on tho night of March 12th last. On that evening . Janney and his wife attended a dinner din-ner given by Ames. Captain Win. II. Jordan, Jr., also of the Twelfth Infantry, Infan-try, completed the party. According to th" testimony of the witnesses as taken by the hoard, Lieutenant Lieu-tenant Janney and his wife quarreled during the evening. It seems that Jnn-ney Jnn-ney recognized in the home of his friend, a champagne cooler, which had belonged to him, but which Mrs. Janney Jan-ney had given to Ames. Janney upbraided up-braided his wife for making the gift, and harsh words followed. Finally, Jauney demanded an apol-ocy apol-ocy from his wife and 'his was made. This ended the quarrel, according to the testimony, and the dinner was resumed. re-sumed. . a little later, however. Jannqy left the houte. returning soon with 'a revolver re-volver with which, It wa tHtMed, he shot himself In the presence of his wife and Col. Ames, it wan testified that Janney rushed into the dining room and flourished tho revolver |