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\\\Ihifcwmiilt;fdS1Lft'Cfihuc:b.(.)ClOTuPaWill Dehv For Proofs.Borne importance attaches to these tacts and yesterday afternoon tuc sber-ilf was investigating me numcr, Having scut men specially to »hc ixisain place for the purpose of making an examination and so tiling positively a matter which is of considerable significance. .Important disclosures may follow. Marshal Kittilsen believes that a iilllc digging won Id rcveai some hr* ami temains Young Lauderback disap ar-cd hi the winter unn\ when the gr . ndwas frozen, nnd if the body had b'ertbimr-d at all it won In be more likelv to bo 11* a phico w1ilt;*it there tv.r t?ie ’ease frosi—for instance in the cow stable.‘i »iOcc Fire Mystenes.Two nights before tlp lt;ieaih of Fn*d Kuschmann, ihc bain of Wm. McLaughlin. whose farm adjoins the farm of Hasram on the west, caught fire end burned. McLaughlin was in the habit of hooping quite a sum of motley lt;on-ccalod in a certain place In the lv use.He is an old man and his evosigh* is failing. While his sons were busy tiy-mg to extinguish me Are .-c renu, ned in the house. He was seated lool*mg out of the window when a man hur led ly mur-ivl the room, blew out th«* light and made a search for toe me* ey, which pioved fruitless, ns it had bieu iviuovcu aild places elsewhere.McLaughlin gave the alarm and Lhe man escaped Almas I as soon *s the lire was fMscovered Bastam was o ».je •scene, although he lived quite a distance from the McLaughlin place. He explained his presence b\ telling of a horse* of his wruch had wanaered i^to McLaughlin's pasture, he going afir r it.Sriil another fire is being charged to the suicide. About IS months ago a large horn on the estate of ins father-in-law, Matt T. Johnson, in the ?ime neighborhood was burned tog* ther with a considerable amount of live stock. I hc fire was evidently iuc ud-iary. Tne opinion is now fast gar/ng ground that this was one of Bastain’s many fiendisn deeds, and robtcry was his motive.He was seen in close proximity l the * time, and his being there was either a a coincidence or something deeper and 1 devilish. Bnstain was at the tire of ' young Kuschraann’s death in dire tstraits, and money was needed 1? fly.Coupled with the forgery on his father which was beginning to pros* him hotly and the burning of the AlCuaiiSb.nii barn the circumstance^ appear to be desperately suspicious.iDid Not Pay Kuschmann. i
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Davenport Weekly Leader
Davenport, Iowa, US
Fri, Mar 20, 1896
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