THAYER FAMILY GETS BACK MISSING WATCH

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Philadelphia Inquirer

Timepiece, Gone when Body was Found, Returned Mysteriously

The missing gold watch of John B. Thayer, 3d, who was found dead in his parked automobile last Friday, has turned up.

The watch was missing when Thayer's body was found in his car on a lot at 47th st. and Parkside av. It turned up Saturday morning, wrapped in paper, on the running board of a station wagon in the garage of the Thayer home on Gray's lane, Haverford.

The watch was found by an employe [sic] of the Thayer family, and apparently had been put on the running board of the station wagon some time Friday night. Yesterday Lieutenant Governor John C. Bell, personal friend of Thayer, complained to Director James H. Malone, of Public Safety, about the presumed theft, and Malone ordered an immediate investigation.

Thayer, his throat and both wrists slashed, was found dead in the car in a lot near the 47th st. and Parkside av. P. T. C. trolley loop. Police of the 42d District were called, and the body was taken to Presbyterian   Hospital , and then to the morgue.

Funeral services for Thayer, who was financial vice president of the University of Pennsylvania , will be held at 4:30 this afternoon in the Church of the Redeemer, Bryn Mawr. Interment will be in the church's cemetery.

Related Biographies:
John Borland jr Thayer

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Suicide

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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

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Andrew Y Liu


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