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tihtVEDiHARRY CARRY,1 NOT MEXICAN,% s(Xff*IS MURDERED[Continued from Pace One.lor mialeadiiiiwith the intention the police.Rodriguez Firm. KurlrigucB, however, denieB any such intention, stating that he actually believed Curry was bis cousin. Just how much credence is to be given to this story is not known, but police ure skeptical us to whether or not such a near relative could view Rocha’s body without being positive about its identity.Stayed Two Hours With Dody, uestioned later today Mrs. Carry-staled that she staved with the body ot her husband two hours after Roclui had run away. Then, she said, she notified the ‘police, but there is no recoid in the policebe convinced that Rocha had really een killed.It was discovered that she wasSbt. - ~Police Chief .Talks.’ The mistake occurred thru nouk of the police department/’ j statiun of Hitch a catk ef Schlueter slated this morn-' g. “The officers who went to the anly where the body v/as lying depended on Coroner J. D. Cant we* i for the identtficaUon. it was’ ini-ossibte to tell whether the body j was tbitf of a Mexican or white ' man, because the head had been .chopped and the features v.tre in-✓-distlnguishable/*1 !■lt;WiiOyC| Officer Walter Schroeder,,k «yas, the first policeman on the /lt;*cene ot the murder,' also slates ;4/ihal he iclted on the cproner*^ ‘JMentiJication.§4*Jim Carroll (another officer) and vent to the shanty,” he said. J‘i ns the first to enter, and saw the fcdy lying on the floor. Yon sure y^eculdn’t tell whether it was a Mexi-an or not, because the head was *t!l covered with blood. The body ’{£* %'is lying face down, and the shirt v.a* torn across the back. The skin ' ,Avas yell nv, like a Mexican’s. “^Coroner Cantwell and a bunch Ot Mexicans said it was Koch0/3bbdy* I took tlieir word for it' Coroner Explains.- Wiiea interviewed today. Coroner Cantwell said that he was iold thePdy was Rocha’s by the Mexican's csin, Rodriguez; and by several\She has admitted that her husband's real name is Walter Baum, and that his mother, Mrs. James Rogers, h, Jhdng sit Peoria, RL The mother win be notified of,her son’s death.To Make Name Change.^ Concerning the manner in'which the inquest will be ccmduetgd tonight, Coroner Cantrell says thatthe only change that will be nude is changing of the name on documents to be used as evidence. The jury will 'be res worn, and everything else will proceed as it was at first planned.Police are undecided whether or not to release Mr-?. Carry before the inquest, altho it is nut believed she would attempt U: 'escape, since so clear an explanation of her part in the murder has been made.FOUR NEW BOYS JOIN HI-Y CLUB THIS MORNING-o■The applications for membership in the i-U-Y club of four additional boys were received at this morning's meeting of the club and actedfavorably upon by 5he club. They ther men, Including H. F. Brondeli, j arc Arthur Rascher, Frank A man.VrvI:Action foreman, who declared that locha was the dead man.vi thought this section foreman ttuglit to knoyr him, Mr. Cantwells-JU-According to Ute coroner, discovery of the mistaken identity will have no effect off the Inquest, which will be held tonight, as per schedule. in the office of Attorney Ralph Smith.McSwiggan’5. Explanation.rt-rCharles Pickens acu Hans Less. The boys met for their regular session at Trinity pirhck house this morning. -A committee comprised of Howard Makeever. PauJ Freund, and Roy Zeman pvill iuf-ei this evening with Bosr Secretary Macdonald at the Y. M. C. A- to make plans for-the montblj club supper Thursdajr. Nov. 16: Harry Iirodeue. cliair-^man of the entertainment com-Assistant County Attdrney Jobivrm^tee have charge of securinga speaker and the 4 Embers’! quar-MeSwiggn says that he did notknow* Carrv, and consequently .could not have identified the body-Ale said that Police Captain Lew .was also ignorant of Carry's ap*/*pea ranee.*74Mrs. Carry told us Sunday night, vhen we questioned her, that her husband arc! the Mexican wore Ji'nlh on me door of the shantv she iert. Her story was not-r'coherent, and she change it sev-/-exnl times. She u*d not say, at that *_ time, that Rocba had rau away, -I and wo therefore did not have mimli faith 111 her story/’Notified Saturday*tjlet will furnish music.Ail Members Present The Sudlow Hi-Y club ian test night* with every member id attendance-. The meeting was the first to be held under the direction of the new leader,_ Al Boeck and wjb an aenthusiastic one.Bowfin n Scores ICITY LEAGUE, Martins.%£NIT;-AJackson ....■Schlueter *. - - W6H, Scblueter ...» ITSBernhart ........1*6Police were notified of she mur-t-Atkins...........dj'r Saturday evening, it has developed. but thru;a mistake did not discover IL A., call from Brocdeli. the section foreman, was received at Ahe station, Brondc-I! tlt;rtd the police that there was some “trouble •a a box qar‘* and cave the ’ocation, . which was evidently wrongly interpreted.At any rale, olbcers were- dispatched to Fifth and Gaines :?tree instead of Hirst and Gaines.' and conseauently found nothing. The murder was not discovered until ft o'clock Sunday morning, when Rodrigues went to ^Rocha's shanty, with intention ofiRiiing the day. 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Davenport Democrat and Leader
Davenport, Iowa, US
Wed, Nov 08, 1922
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