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j Throws Bones Back in Hole.! Accordingly hr- set his post, on top Inf the body, throwing tho hones hark j in the hob* and attempted to forgot i all about it. Tho thought of what j lav two fret beneath tho ground only | :b feet from his bedroom, however, haunted him and prevented him from sleeping at night and in the morning in* decided to bear it no longer. Accordingly ho oamo to Milan and telephoned to Sheriff Cralle wholimited up Coroner Eekhart and the two went, to the place to investigate.The spot where tho remains wore j buried was oast of tho house* on tho si to of an ice house that was torn down during the spring following the discovery of other crimes of Has-tian. The hole had been dug just inside the door, which opened toward the house, and extended almost duo north and south. The party of men who accompanied the coroner and sheriff from Milan took up the post that Hoffmann had set and thencarefully removed tho earth over the entire ’length of the body. There was no trace of the clothing left except the boots and here and there a mere thread. The hones were uo longer fastened together by the ligaments and some of the smaller ones had he gun ni show signs of decay.Skull Had Been Crushed.The hole was shorter than the body ami the arms were above the head, showing that the remains had j been doubled up and dumped into the hole in a hurried fashion. An examination of the skull revealed beyond a shadow of doubt the manner in which death had conn* to the unfortunate. There were four places where tho cranium had been crushed by blows from some hard instrument. One was iear the right temple and the other, 'itreo near the left temple. Two of the j latter only crushed the bone and the j ■ther tore a circular opening nearly vwo inches in diameter. One of the boots was still on the foot. It was a leavy cowhide affair and inside of it were fragments of a heavy sock show- jJ
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Davenport Daily Leader
Davenport, Iowa, US
Fri, Dec 06, 1901
Page 6
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