Died. Gaston Bullock Means, 59, notorious national rascal, onetime Secret Service operator and private detective; of a heart attack; in Springfield, Mo., where he had been taken from Leavenworth Penitentiary for an operation. Born in North Carolina, Gaston Means at ten rode around the country eavesdropping on prospective jurors for his attorney-father. He joined the William J. Burns Detective Agency in 1910, then became a German spy, was later tried and acquitted of murdering a client. When the Bureau of Investigation hired him for War fraud investigations, he helped block them instead. Discharged, he supplied the Senate's Teapot Dome committee with material intended to drive Harry M. Daugherty out of the Cabinet. Few years later he was sent to Atlanta for three years for conspiracy against the Dry Law. In 1928, he published a book, The Strange Death of President Harding, quoting the late President's wife as admitting she had poisoned her husband. In 1932 Rascal Means was put behind the bars for good for diddling rich Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean out of $100,000 on the pretext that he could find the Lindbergh baby.

Died. Martin Egan, 66, onetime war correspondent, later for 25 years in charge of J. P. Morgan & Co.'s press relations; of heart disease; in Manhattan. He was correspondent for the San Francisco Chronicle at Manila during the Spanish-American War. Later as Associated Press correspondent during the Russo-Japanese war he scored a notable beat on the siege of Port Arthur. In 1908 he became editor of the Manila Times; in 1913 became the Morgan pressagent, proving indispensable to Partner Thomas W. Lamont in dealings with China, to Partner Henry P. Davison in War-time administration of the Red Cross.

Died. Katharine Augusta Carl, eightyish, U. S. portrait painter; scalded by hot water in her bathtub; in Manhattan. In 1903, after arrangements requiring infinite tact and ceremony, Miss Carl started to paint the portrait of China's Dowager Empress. When she had finished three, Her Majesty was so pleased with the whole procedure that she wanted Miss Carl to continue painting her picture indefinitely.

Died. Dr. William Moore Guilford, 106, oldest U. S. country doctor; of pneumonia; in Lebanon, Pa. Dr. Guilford's recipe for longevity: "Choose a hardy, healthy and long-lived grandfather."

Died. The four favorite saddle horses of the late British-born Queen Maud of Norway; destroyed (according to her wish, because she could not bear to think of them passing into other hands); at her English home in Sandringham.

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