Miami Herald
Transcribed from the front page of the Miami Herald, Friday Morning August 12, 1921
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Brother Seeks Particulars Of Canal Tragedy
Sergeant H. L. Patch, of the local police force, received a long distance telephone call from one of the brother of Miss Maude Gilbert at about 11:30 last night. Both of the brothers are in Bridgeport, Connecticut, and one of them called at the office of the Telegram, a Bridgeport newspaper, and requested that a member of the staff talk for him. Mr. Gilbert, it is said, stood by the telephone while the member of the Telegram's staff asked question concerning Miss Gilbert's Death. The brother said he would wire the King Undertaking Company regarding the disposal of the body.
Sergeant Patch said that the call lasted about 17 minutes and that the connections were practically perfect, not a word of the conversation being lost.