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FULL TELEGRAPHIC AND, CABLE NEWS SERVICE OF THE UNITED PRESS THE DAY 500- S. PEORIA ST. 398 TEL. MONROE 353 Vol. X, Np. 251. Chicago, Tuesday, July 16, 1912. One Cent MYSTERY IS CLEARED. New York, July 16.: There was a -dramatic scene in the grand jury ante room today. " Daniel Swartz, father of Nath an Swartz, the suspected slayer of little 12-year-old Julia Connors, was sitting there, awaiting exam ination. , - Mrs. Connors, mother of the murdered girl, was brought in. She was garbed in black. Her face was stained with tears. One of those with her carriedthe blood-stained garments torn frdm . her outraged child. Daniel Swarz' face became ashen. His hands trembled. The tears streamed down his face. Mrs. Connors was taken into the grand 'jury room. She became hysterical. Her screams rang through the building; Suddenly old 'man Swartz jumped from his chair and called to Asistant District Attorney . Nott. "My son outraged and mur dered Julia Connors," he cried. "He tbfd me about it the Sunday morning he'r body was discov ered. I told him the only thing he could do was to kill himself: I helieve-he- did so. I hope he did so. Swartz repeated his testimony before the grand jury. His son, Jacob, brother of the murderer, corroborated it. The police of every state in the union are searching for Nathan now. The nude and mutilated body of Julia' Connors was found in a vacant lot in the Brfonx July 7. There were 41 stab wounds in the body, 21 of then in the back. THORPE IS BEST ATHLETE Stadium, Stockholm, Sweden, July.16 America has again beat en the world in athletic competi tion. ' When James Thorpe, Carlisle Indian, won he decthalon yester day afternoon, adding six more points to-the' Yankee total and closing the track and' field section of the Olympic meet, the Ameri cans had won by a larger margin than in any previous internation al meet." Thorpe has proven himself the best all-around athlete in the world, winning both the pentha lon and decthalon. America scored 128 -points in all events', including riding, shoot ing, swimming and fe'ncing, the nearest rival being Sweden, with 104. In the purely athletic con- 1 faZJtd -BI..I UBtrii 1U1 &-. "assise: