The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-12

in an official report said that the assassin was Mejardich Karayan, an Armenian. They timed the murder at 8:30 a. m. Karayan fired six shots, police said, and Mariner was hit in the head, breast and thigh.
 There was one report that Mar riner's assassin was a naturalized American to whom the consulate general had refused @ passport.
 Seeking Passport
 In any event it was ascertained that the assassin had been trying consistently for more than six weeks to get permission to visit the United States. Attaches of the consulate refused the permission -- perhaps because of suspicion of family his- torysof insanity. A .' .,,
 A shop keeper said that for six or seven days past the assassin had stood near the Consulate General gate, or walked up and down, break ing his vigil only to buy two pack ages of cigarettes each day.
 The shop keepers said that he be- lieved the Armenian had been naturalized. The assassin had fol- lowed consular officials as they left the Consulate General, the shop keeper said. He named Consul John H. Madonne, and William s. Far rell, vice consul, as officials whom the assassin had followed.
 Though He Was Beggar
 Consular officials and other Americans, the shop keeper said, thought that the assassin was a beggar. They used to offer him aims, the shop keeper said, and he would throw the coins at them in anger. They concluded that he was deranged.
 Mariners body will be em- balmed and shipped to the United States. His mother, who lives in Maine, was being consulted by cable.
 The United States minitser at Baghdad, Paul Knabenshue, was expected to arrive in time for the funeral tomorrow. Professors and students at the American University will attend.
 Watched Movements
 For days, police said, the Armen- ian had studied Mariners nove- ments. He knew that each morn- ing at about the same time Marri- ner motored from his hill top resi- dence outside the city to the con- sulate, near the seaport part of town.
 The assassin selected for his arn- bush narrow part of Q street where congestion obliged traffic to go slowly.
 Police emphasized that the attack was of an embittered individual on another individual, and was not the result of any anti-Americanisrn.
 Very Popular
 The shot that killed Mariner re- moved Q man of great popularity whose rise in the diplomatic service was steady and rapid. He was known both in diplomatic and social circles of many countries as an ell. gible --and persistent--bachelo and a diplomat of distinction.
 He was born at Portland, Me-, May IT, 1892. A graduate of Dart mouth and Harvard, he was an in- structor in English at Harvard from 1916 to 1918. He had tried to enlist in the army when the United States entered the World War but was rejected because of a weak heart. Taking the examination for the diplomatic service he was one of two applicants among 100 accepted. His first post was at the legation at Stockholm as secretary, Then he went to Bucharest as secretary, and was among the special United States envoys at the marriage of King Carol and Princess Helene in 1922.
 In Western Europe
 Next, Mariner was detailed to duty in the western European di. vision of the State Department at Washington from 1923 to 1926. Thence he was sent to Berne as secretary of the legation and there he was secretary to the American delegation to the Geneva disarma- ment commission meetings in 1926 and 1927.
 Mariner became charga d'atfairee t,. fas,,ik k,hS1as1d and aNtiYaO haad nf