MELTZNER, BRILLIANT LAW STUDENT, DIES IN ACCIDENT

Jacob Richard Meltzner, of Chicago, graduate Law student and editor of the Law Review, was found dead yesterday morning in his room in an Agassiz Street apartment.

Dr. David Dow, chief Medical Examiner of the city of Cambridge, said the death was accidental, and was caused by gas escaping from a jet in the kitchen stove, which had been inadvertently left on.

Meltzner, one of the most brilliant students in the Law School in recent years, was graduated magna cum laude last June, and was engaged in graduate work at the time of his death.

He was a graduate of the Wharton School of Finance of the University of Pennsylvania, and it was rumored that he was to be Justice D. Brandeis' next secretary in Washington, for the coming term of the United States Supreme Court.