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fVrry Sexton, the former Kokomo man whose ]iflt;*Ic ss body was found a io, i j.ivhf ago in a cabin on a tim-1 ' : Haim away up in tlie hear) of ’ «■ Minnesota lumber country, came ■ u hi death hy violence.I his fact was disclosed todaywhen the remains arrived in this i y and were examined by a few of lie dead man s kinsmen and ac-■1 waintances at the Rich Dimmitt unde! taking est ablishment. The mark? of violence on the head left no room for doubt hat the man had been done to death with a knife.ri hat there were knife wounds on the body, it is reasonable to suppose. No attempt was made to disrobe the corpse, its condition being such as to forbid any attempt to remove it from the metallic casket in which it had been shipped.Across the forehead there was a deep gash. On the right cheekthere was a circular cut several inches in length and on the left side of the face there were two ugly wounds where a blade, evidently driven by some one murder bent, had slashed. The face and headwere swollen to almost double the normal proportions and the marks of death, coupled with those of violence, rendered the remains almost unrecognizable. The condition ofthe body was a shock to the few persons who were permitted to see
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Kokomo Daily Tribune
Kokomo, Indiana, US
Mon, Nov 20, 1905
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