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BY VIOLENCEPerry Sexton Came to His Death in the Woods.THE BODY ARRIVESKnife Murks or: tin* Head and Fare | Show That He Had Been Assaulted,—11lt;mains \ot in Condition to Blt; \ ilt;•ivc.'l—UojKnt of C’oroner’^ Inquiry \ot Horn Vet.Perry Sexton, the former Kokomo j man whose lifeh ss body was found a fo,might ago in a cabin on a tim-i • r elaim away up in the heart of t-”lt;* Minnesota lumber country, came to his death by violence.This fact was disclosed todayvi.cn the remains arrived in this ei:y and were examined by a few* of ilio dead man s kinsmen and acquaintances at the Rich Dimraitt undertaking establishment. The marks of violence on the head left no room for doubt that the man had been done to death with a knife.That 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 of the body was a shock to the few* persons who were permitted to see it.The remains were taken late this afternoon to the home of the dead man’s daughter, Mrs. John Pitzer, near Alto, where ~he funeral will take place Tuesday morning at 10 o’clock. As yet no word has been received 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 what has been heard from ; the town of Bemidji, the place where the inquiry wras 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 up the wilderness life and return to this city and live. He wras visited by his son-in-law, John 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 follow7 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 fear's were only too w7dl founded was es-tablished today when his corpse disclosed that he had come to his death as the result of some man’s violence.
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Kokomo Daily Tribune
Kokomo, Indiana, US
Mon, Nov 20, 1905
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