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Body Taken From La Crosse! ftj 'Grave Found Across River !Legs Severed From Torso; Police Suspect Medical Student.* 9 • • *La Crosse—(Special to The Re-publican-Herald) — Found Wednesday afternoon, the body of Perry Brlnstad, 70-yenr old La Crosse county charge, was again reposing today in the grave in Campbell* -cemetery where It was removed on Sept. 30 by ghouls whose identitypolice here have been seeking since.The body was discovered, wrappedin canvfts and tied with bindertwine, by Glen Clement of LaCrosse on the lower end of Pettl-bone park below the municipal tourist park and across the Mississippi river from the city. Clement was not searching for the body at the time and no reward was offered for it.On removing the wrappings from the body it was found that the legs had been cut from the torso, causing authorities to believe that the grave robbery had been the work of a medical man or student. The legs were contained in a gunny sack and the torso was covered with another sack and the two were wrapped together in the canvas.Police announced they would continue to seek the grave robbers in an effort to get to the bottom of the first case of this kind in La Crosse county. The place where the body was found is only about a quarter of a mile from the Campbell cemetery.Brlnstad died at a La Crosse hospital and was buried Sept. G by the county which had cared for him for some time and during his last UN nbzx. He left ho relatives in La Crosse although several reside inMinneapolis and points in Wisconsin.COURT TO OPEN AT ALMA ON MONDAY101HI15 Cases Scheduled for Disposition at Term.Alma, .Wls.—Fifteen eases, 12 of|(;;' them'civil actions for trial by jury,* appear on the October circuit court! }ctiItbcalendar prepared by Darwin W. Ulrich, clerk of court.Judge George Thompson will open;lt;j court here Monday, with no crim-! n inal cases to try. Besides the dozen' Jury cases there are three issues of fact to be decided by the judge.Briefly, the cases are as follows:Peter N, Oesau vs. Ed. Kohlhepp, trespass.Minnie Hclstad vs. Armin Accola and Edgar Accola, automobile accident.W. H. Nething vs. Frank Schank Wm. Schank, damages, sale of hay in violation of agreement.Edwin J. Larkin, guardian of John Johnson, Incompentent, vs. Andy Johnson and Julia Johnson, to set aside a land sale.Fred Bielefcldt vs. Edward Jackson, damages for fraud.Botsford Lumber Co. vs. Floyd Czapiewskl, action on note, and attachment of real estate.Mondovi Securities Co. vs. Jesse W. Winter, Bell Winter, and Anton Quarbcrg, promissory note. tMondovi Securities Co. vs. Jesse nnclnna:fttlclt;lifr1!cwirwao:JC1Suspicion that the grave had been robbed was . aroused when a cemetery worker noticed that the earth was not mounded over as it had been at tlic time of Brinstad’s burial.After obtaining permission from the dead man’s out-of-town relatives, authorities opened the grave to find that the body had been removed and the casket and rough box left.This started a search of the body, the ghouls ahd a motive for the grave robbery although police had only one clue upon which to work, that of the report that a car had been seen parked near the cemetery on the night of the supposed robbery.W. Winter and Belle Winter, promissory Jiott*.Commercial Credit Co. vs. Loomis Motor Co., and others, replevin to recover possession of Plymouth sedan.Vandcm V. Nothing vs. Wm. Neth-ing, contract.ntlnc;Cti11The American Bank vs. Herman i aMengelt, defendant, Walter Mcn-gclt, garnishee.Darwin W. Ulrich, as clerk of cir-suit court for Buffalo county vs. Abner Kins, John Kins and Martha Kins, to recover on a note payable into court.Monclovl Securities Co. vs. Marie J. Amundson and others, mortgage foreclosure, lands in town Naples.Rena Frasc vs. Henry Frasc, divorce.Theresa Schlotfcldt vs. Ed. Elling-son and wife, mortgage foreclosure, lands In town TTaples.♦--*BirthsIludnall—Born to Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Iludnall, 103 West WabashaKt.rnot n. rfn.ncrhf.nr Ont. fi at thn WillCltlt;b:d!PSscoitlDo]tl11inwEuir\
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Winona Republican Herald
Winona, Minnesota, US
Thu, Oct 06, 1932
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