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LAKE CITY HOTEL I OWNER FOUND DEAD IN MILL CITY ROOMBody of Peter Ehlers Discovered in Gas-FilledApartment.*Lake City—(Special to The Republican-Herala)—The body of a man found In a g-fU14d Minneapolis apartment hdtise room at 7 a. in; today'wak Identified this morning as that of Peter Ehlers, owner of the Lyons hotel hero ' for more than 20 years, according to Francis JaCob, Lake City police. chief.Ehlers registered at the. apartment house at 1 a. m, under the name of T. iSuhson of Lake City and was found dead of illuminating gas poisoning, according to an Associated Press dispatch from Minneapolis.: According to the dispatch a gas jet on tlie stove in the apartment was turned oh. Among the dead man’s effects, Minneapolis police found a receipt bearing the name “Peter Ehlers.’*Ehlers left Lake City for Minneapolis on business Monday morning, Police Chief Jacob said, Mrs. Ehlers, his wife, and Ailuf Tuttel, Lake City butcher and a friend of the family, left here today to return the body from Minneapolis.Ehlers, about 05 years old, operated the Lyon hotel hero most of the time during the last 20 years or more. He was widely known in this territory. At one time he sold out the business but later again tookI possession.He has one son, Peter, about eight years old.
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Winona Republican Herald
Winona, Minnesota, US
Tue, Nov 15, 1932
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