The Archive · 1936

TRAGEDY ENDS LIFE OF MR. ZIONCHEK

Erratic U.S. Congressman Jumps to His Death

Seattle, Aug. 7.

One of the most amazing careers in American polities was brought to sudden and tragic end to-day when Mr. Marion A. Zioncheck, Representative in Congress from the first Washington district, leaped to his death from the fifth floor of an alice building here.

Dashing to the window of his law office on the Afth floor of the Arctic Building here, the Congressman Teaped to the pavement below and was instantly killed, 'A morbidly curious crowd immediately gathered about the body, which a short time later was removed to the municipal morgue by city authorities—United Press.

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