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piaiy Bares Love
Secret as Motive
For Death of Two
feaithy Advertising Man Is
Found Slain Beside
Divorcee; Poem Iiints
End "Under Coffin Lid"
Special Dispatch to The Tribune
CHICAGO, March 9?A strangcly
written diary ln the handa of the police
tg-day has convinced them that Mrs.
jath Randall, beautiful divorcee and
-oet, shot and killed Captain Clifford
Jlelville Bleyer, wealthy advertising
B?n. husband and father of two chil
jjren. She is believed to have sent the
bullet into his right temple as Bleyer
ajlept beside her on a bed in her apart
sjent, and then shot horsoif.
The bodies of Bleyer and the woman
were found last night after friends and
the police broke into the apartment.
R \$ believed that they had been dead
alnce Saturday night. Outside the door
\nr the Sunday morning paper and two
Biilk deliveries. The only shadow of a
mystery l^at remains in the mind of
the police is the question why?
lndications are that recently Bleyer
had grown restive under tho dual life
he was compelled to lead and had
abandoned the woman. It is thought
then that she penned a "death poem"
which is scrawled over a page of her
dairy, a poem with its sinster begi
?lng:
"Sleep, my heloved. sleep!
Be patient! We shall keep
Our secret closely hid
Beneath the coffin lid."
Two Bodies Found on Bed
The two bodies were found on a bed
ln the apartment which Bleyer is said
to have rented for Mrs. Randall at
2607 Lake Park Avenue. The revolver
which had er.ded tha secret romance
was lying close to the woman's hand.
It was the long continued absence of
Bleyer from his home which led to the
diseovery of the tragedy. On Saturday
morning Bleyer went to his office as
usual. About dinner time he called up
his wife and told her not to wait for
him, as he was detaiied by business.
AU Sunday Mrs. Bleyer waited at her
home, 918 Galt Avenue, for one of the
exenses which hitherto had been so p'en
tiful, but it didn't arrive. On Monday
she called in Roger Tuttle, secretary of
the Bleyer Agency, and Robert O. War
aer, of 264^ Sheffield Avenue, a close
personal friend.
The two men .ummaged through
Bleyer's desk at his office ar.d found a
check book which contained the keyj
both to the mystery of the moment
and to the romance which had brought'
the mystery into being:. Its stubs were J
the silent record. With monotonous ]
regularity one stub each m-mth since i
May 1, 1919, showed that B'.eyer had i
paid the rer.t on the Lake Park Avenue
apartment,
Break Into Apartment
A visit to the apartment came next..
When the rings of' the two men met
with no response they called the po?
lice, who broke into the aparttiment.
Bleyer apparently had been sho
while he slent. Death had come <o
awiftly that his expreasion was still
that of one who slept peacefully.
In the apartment wero hundreds of
evidenccs to nttest to the intimacy of
Bleyer with its interior. Near by, too,
was the dead woman's diary ,bearing
mute testimony to the motive for tho
muifHer and suicide.
a ..-.
235 Plaiies Sold Here
In Biggest Single Deal
$^000,000 Transaction On? of
Those Made at the Show;
Italy Plans Flight
The world's greatest sale of com?
mercial airplanes wss made yesterday
at the Aeronautlcal Show, when George
W. Browne, of Chicago, placed an
order for 235 airplanes at approxi?
mately $1,000,000 for two clients.
Mr. Browno is the Chicago repre?
sentative *of the Curtiaa Company and
the order he placed is for F. H.
Cantrell, president of the Chattanooga
Automobile Company, of Tennessee,
and W. M. Fagley, of the Curtlsa
Indiana Company, of Kokomo, Ind.
Thirty-ftve of the airplanes will be of
the new three-passenger Oriole type,
and the remaining 200 will be of the
JN-4 type repurchased by the Curtisa
Company from the government.
During the day the Curtisa exhibit
sold a twelve-passenger Eaglo biplano
to W. B. Swaney, vico?president of the
Curtiss Iowa Company. The General
Exhibition Company, of Buffalo,
bought six JN-4's. Mrs. Frederick
Chase, of Arllngton. Mass., purchased
a Curtiss-Standard biplane.
Lieutenant Colonel A. Guldoni,
Italian Air Attache, who visited tho
Aero Show yestorduy, authorized the
statement that the Italian government
will undertake a non-stop dirigible
flight across the Atlantic from Rome
to Rio de Janiero next June.
"The distance," he said. "ia 5,600
miles. The new ship will make nn
average of 60 knota day and night
and the flight is expected to take /U0
hours, as against twenty days neces?
sary for a Bteamship. The new ship
is 300 feet long and is equipped with
four engines of 260 horsepowor."
Announcement
to Express Patrons
The American Railway Express Company
announces the lifting of the temporary embargo
which has been in effect for the past three
days, due to storm throughout the Eastern
territory, and requests its patrons to assist in
relieving the situation by not carting any
business to express terminals.
Such practice has resulted in bringing about
a congestion with patrons* teams and company
vehicles. The best interest of all concerned
will be served by awaiting the call of the
pick-up vehicles, or in case of an emergency
taking the business to branch offices only,
leaving the terminals free for the operation
of the company's vehicles.
The embargo on business to Chicago, due
to labor troubles, is still in effect.
The American Railway Express Co.
Por rosy cbeefcs, happy
smiles, white teeth, good
appefites and dteestions.
Its benefits are as GREAT
as its cost is SMALL!
fjf It satisfies tbe desire for sweets,
and is beneficial, too.
CHEW IT AFTER EVERY MEAL
Sealed
Kept
Rteht
Lasts
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Dcar Sir:?
Just a line to ask if you would be so kind to come and see me because my
husband went to a hospital two weeks ag* I have four children and the baby is poorly.
A lady told me to go to this place and explain my case and that you may do something. I
don't feel very good myself, 501 thought I cfcuid write to you. There is no bread or food in
?hc house. Won't you pletse send somcone to help me? I don't want much but once.in
a while it beats me to live. My babies are gobd children too,
Please oblige,
Mrs_
WE' VE told her we'd help her; what we tell
many like her depends on whether you feel
a responsibility in this highly important campaign
for funds to carry on our work, the
XJL.JL. V^?
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March 4
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IAST year we helped, in one way or another, 21,500 mothers
^ and children who had no one else upon whom they
could depend for aid.
After*all, to be hungry or sick or cold in New York hurts just
as much as anywhere else in the world.)
Isn't it right, now that the war is over, to make a special'
effort to relieve the sick and poor of New York, when they
are destitute through no fault of their own.
The New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor
105 East 22nd Street, New York City
Comelius N. Bliss, Jr.]
President
WNANCE COMMITTEE j
Dwight W. Morrow, Chairman
George Blagden, Treasurer
Thomas Cochran
R. Fulton Cutting
Eugene Delano
Harvey D. Gibson
John Henry Hammond
Albert G. Milbank
George Murhane
(All of the advertising used in this campaign has been contributed by warm friends of the Association)