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3Y VIOLENCE*erry Sexton Came to His Death in the Woods.?HE BODY ARRIVESluife Marks on lh«* Hoad and Faro Show That Hi* Hail l»«*oit Assaulted—Kimains \ot in Condition to !lt; \ iov/oti—Report of Coroner’^Inquiry Not Horo Vot.Perry Soxton, the former Kokomo sin whose lifeless body was found a fj.’i Right ago in a cabin on a timer claim away up in the heart of lt;• Minnesota lumber country, came u iiis death by violence.Ibis fact was disclosed todayi:cn the remains arrived in this ity and were examined by a few of ho dead mans kinsmen and ac-uaintances at the Rich Dimmitt udei taking establishment. The narks of violence on the head left o room for doubt that the man had Ken done to death with a knife,hat there were knife wounds on he body, it is reasonable to sup-ose. No attempt was made to dis-obo the corpse, its condition be-ng such as to forbid any attempt0 remove it from the metallic asket in which it had been shipped.Across the forehead there was a leep gash. On the right cheekhere was a circular cut several nches in length and on the left side »f the face there were two ugly vounds where a blade, evidently iriven by some one murder bent, tad slashed. The face and headvere swollen to almost double the lormal proportions and the marks of ieath, coupled with those of vio-ence, rendered the remains almost mrecognizable. The condition of ho body was a shock to the few tersons who were permitted to see t.The remains were taken late this ifternoon to the home of the dead nan’s daughter, Mrs. John Pitzer, tear Alto, where “he funeral will ;ake pla:e Tuesday morning at 10 Ncloek. As yet no word has been •eceived from the Minnesota authorities giving the result of the coroner’s investigation in the case. A letter from the coroner is expected within a day or two, a telegram having been received stating that full written details of the inquiry would be forwarded at once.From wiiat has been heard from the town of Bemidji, the place where the inquiry was held, Sexton’s acquaintances here have formed the opinion that he was killed in an encounter with some man with whom he had had a controversy. That he was not slain for his money or other property is established by the fact that his money was found on his person and not one article had been taken from his cabin. What could have caused a quarrel between him and any other man out in that wild country is difficult to conjecture. His cabin was many miles from the nearest human habitation and he never had any callers save the rough and dissolute men of the woods. It is probable that it was one of these, some fellow who was maddened with liquor and hunting trouble, who went to the old man’s cabin, provoked him into a quarrel and then killed him.Sexton’s kinspeople here had made earnest and repeated efforts to get him to give lip the wilderness life and return to this city and live. He was visited by his son-in-law, John1 Pitzer, who sought to persuade him to come back and make his home on the Pitzer farm. The old man had grown eccentric* and obstinate. He could not be argued into giving up the life in the woods. He was comfortable in his cabin and his kinspeople could do nothing but let him follow his own bent. They had feared for his safety ever since he went there and several of them had predicted that a sinister fate would overtake him. That their fears were only too well founded was es*-tablished today when his corpse disclosed that he had come to his death
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Kokomo Daily Tribune
Kokomo, Indiana, US
Mon, Nov 20, 1905
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