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SHOW 0IRL THE PLAINTIFF IN A $50,000 BREACH OF PROMISE SUIT DEFENDANT A MARRIED MAN Col. Edward Harrison Power, former president of the "Wyopo Qil Co , 416 W. Indiana street, is deefndant in a sensational breach ' -of promise-suit filed In, NeW York by; Miss Maude Mitten, a show girl, known to the stage as Paula Dana. t Miss Qana, who met the dash ing colonel two years ago in a manicure parlor, wants $50,000 balm for her injured heart. The plaintiff, who admits she is "plump," claims that her 'suit wjll be. liberally sprinkled with love letters, of which she has 1,400 the gay Lothario wrote her. Whenever the colonel felt par ticularly amorous and wanted to do a little Don Juaning he sat down and with the .aid of pen and ink lovingly called Miss Dana his "own dear, fat, biggest muddie," or his "dear fat muddie." rle did this on an average of about twice .a day, according to allegation in the suit. ' When unduly inspired Miss Dana was "dear fat sweetheart muddie Pauler" ito the colonel, who, froni his, letters, seems con vinced that the object of hisvaf-. fections was fat. , The suit, with all its attendant sensations, might never have been filed but for an oversight on the part of the-coloriel. He for got he was married while writing to the showgirl. When he did re member it the colonel was in a me'ss. It was up toliim-to marry Miss Dana andcomimt Bigamy, or defy her andbe dragged into court on the unpleasant end of 4 breach of promise suit. a He chose the latter course and, i Miss Dana promises to do sones tall dragging. S r ITALIAN WOMAN SAYSJ SHE KTLLED HUSBAND In her cell at the East Chicago Ave. station today, Mrs. Peter' Musser, the little Italian woman, br,oke down and confessed to the murder of her husband. According to the .woman's story Musser, whose Body was found by firemen when they were called to extinguish the fire at 1011 Larabee st, returned Home Tuesday moruing- and , waking her, inquired the time. She told him it was two o'clock. He then drew a razor from his pocket and , approaching the bed, tdld her "it was time for her to die." She sprang from the bed, seized a "re volver from the dresser, fired, three shots, two of which tookr ef fect, and left the house, going to the home of friends. Mrs. Musser denied knowing anything of the origin of the fire, insisting that neither she nor her- also renudiafed the storv of 14- vi year-old Elizabeth Doyle, who J told the police that she had heard the shots and saw a man running from the Musser rooms a mome'afc after, declaring that no one 'else was present at the shootrhg. Mrs. Musser was on the verge ot collapse several times during -j the recital, anq showed plainly? r m