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Show 'LEAD PENCIL ' lisLLLU yy t yy Jackie on a Gunboat Has Jugular Vein Picrczd Now York, Sept, in. The stub of a lead pencil was the wcaiou which brought death lust night to Albert Currcn, a Jackie on tin? I'nlted .Slates gnuboul Hancock. Curren had obtained obtain-ed a It raw of absence to visit his sifter sif-ter in Brooklyn. In a saloon near her house lnst nlqht, ho became cupa.?ed whh John Schmidt, an acquaintance, in a lively live-ly discussion as to the merits of the battleships of Germany ajid the United Unit-ed Stales. Schmidt declares Curren struck him. Schmidt said ho did not realize that he held a Toad pencil In his clenched hand, when, in resenting resent-ing Curren's attack, he struck back. The blow caught Curren on the neck and the pencil rdcrced his jugular vein. |