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ZUE CROOK’S BODYFOUND IN SHALLOWGRAVE IN ARKANSASTVAZue E. Crook, a native of the Camden vicinity, and brother of Henry Crook, this city, apparently was murdered some time last Friday at his farm home near Yellville, Ark., according to word received here Monday afternoon. The body was not found until Sunday and was buried in a shallow grave. Wayne Crook, lo-* ** • t Bcal nephew; Marion Funkhouser, also of Flora; two sons, Joe Ward, of Pittsburg, Ind., and Charles Ward, of Chicago, left Monday evening to return with the body. It will arrive here on the 5:15 P. M., Pennsylvania train Thursday evening of this week and will be taken to the Carter Funeral Home, where services will be held Friday' afternoon at 2 o’clock, with Rev. Mark Malles, pastor of the Grace Brethren church, in charge.Burial will be made in the Moss cemetery. Another report that has reached Flora is that when a suspect was being questioned by a state policeman relative to the Crook death he killed the officer. When found the body was stripped of all valuables.The body was buried only a few feet from the dead man’s home.Zue Crook, son of Mr. and Mrs.John H. Crook, was bom on a farm east of Camden 59 years ago. Up to neigl seven years ago he was a railroader has on the Pennsylvania at Logansport. 0hio He then went to California to work for the Union Pacific, retiring last a May. When a young man he served in the U. S. Navy in peacetime, for three years. During World War 1 he was in the U. S. Army, serving in the Infantry. While in California he bought a farm near Yellville, which it is reported has a lead mine on it. The last of August he had come Eir there to look it over and then came Comi to Flora to visit relatives. He had Amel been on the farm only about three telepl weeks at the time of the apparent *nB’ a murder. He was a member of the Masonic lodge at Logansport and was a 32nd degree Mason. Surviving are two sons, Joe and Charles Ward; two sisters, Amanda Metzger, of Salt Lake City, Utah; Mrs. Alice Bums, of Phoenix, Ariz., and three brothers,W. Henry Crook, this city; Lewis Crook, of Los Angeles, Calif., and John Edward Crook, of Warrenville,111.BeRev.weekBretlMRIS 1RE'ticellinersrecehpreseLantsothyDorcsginiaMinniSparl the QfrA
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Flora Hoosier Democrat
Flora, Indiana, US
Sat, Oct 02, 1948
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