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SCHOOLHOUSE PROPERTY DESTROYED BY MARAUDERSUnkitpwn Vandals Wreck1Inside of Building.FLAG IS DESECRATEDOn© Torn to Pieces—Ortran Broken l'p and Books Ripped ApartOther Damage is Done.IIVandals, as yet unknown. Thurs-|| day night almost completely ruinedthe equipment and fixtures in Prospect school. No. 7, in Lake Township The work of destruction became known today when a son of Art Sanders. passing by the sohoolhouse, noticed a pile of rubbish that had beenthrow*n out of a w indow. He notified i P. H. Naber. a dilector, who immediately summoned ^ountv officials. Deputies Ed. Sanders and HarryCooper went immediately to the scene and began an investigation.The Du in acre.The inside of the bu*.Icing was almost a complete wreck. A new organ. purchased during the last school, year with the proceeds of a benefit ; performance, was smashed. The keys :were broken, the pedal straps cut j and the stops knocked off. All thehooks in a bookcasq, were taken out and torn to pieces. Looking glasses jwere smashed and mars torn from a j case on the wall. After the books ' had been torn up kerosene from the j broken lamps was poured on thq floorj1 and an effort mace to start a fire. ( Part of the dictionary was burned.Flag Torn lo Pieces.The act of destruction reached its height when a tin box was broken open and two American .flags which it contained, taken out. One of thethe■t1ilt;flags was ripped to pieces andether was stuffed up a chimney. The t miscreants finished up their work by throwing a huge pile of stuff out of the window by which they had en-jt tered. The exact amount of the dam-it age done had not been estimated by tschool officials yet today. iThe school yard has been the t scene of numerous ’ retting parties'1 1 all summer long, according to residents of the neighborhood, who said today that often cars are parked in that vicinity nearly all night longTwo handkerchiefs, marked with initials. and numerous finger prints on articles in the building, furnish the'only clues for the officials to workon. According to Mr. Naber. the handkerchiefs were not there Thursday afternoon when he mowed the j yard.The destruction is believed to have been committed some time between 10 and 12 o’clock Thursday night. ] Lester Lamb, residing near the i schoolhouse said a car was parked there when he passed on his way home from Muscatine. Another resident of the vicinity said there was no automobile in the vicinity when he passed shortly after midnight.A finger print expert was to be taken to the schoolhouse this afternoon ; by Deputy Sanders to tike photographs of the marks upon various ar- 1 tides. 1
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Muscatine Journal and News Tribune
Muscatine, Iowa, US
Fri, Sep 01, 1922
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Musser P.
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