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Tim Cuniwi ll OulrHgx,Peoria Transcript.]There are no new development* ax yet in the Cantwell caae, excepting that It aeema to become dearer, day by day,that the statements of the boy, namely, that he was tied to the railroad track hv a miserable fiend, which ban been pooh-poohed by aoiue people, are true without the shadow of a doubt. Yoxterday two bridge carpenters, who reaide in Pekin, and are engaged on the I., H. A VV. road, xtated that 011 the Thursday following the Yueaday tin which the outrage wax committed, a tramp, nnxwering the dexerlp-tlon given by the boy of the fiend who tied him, exactly, came up to the place where they were at work on a bridge,four m I lex eaxt of Tremont, and requested them to give him a drink of water. They were xtruck by the rexernhlance to the dexcrlptlon of the perpetrator of the outrage, and eay that they would have ar rex ted and held him had they not xeen in the papers that day that the xuxperted perpetrator of the deed had been arrexted and wax in (ail at Pekin. Now that thix party haa been proved innocent, they are convinced that they met the right man and are ot course highly chagrined that that they xhould have inixxed a possibleopportunity of arresting the villain.
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Bloomington Weekly Leader
Bloomington, Illinois, US
Thu, Sep 01, 1881
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