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MURDER—MOST VOVL.On Thursday la^t, at Lost Orovc, eight miles north j I west of Enterprise, La Salle county, was found the body of a man, who, from ail appearances, must have been the victim of some murderous villiau or viIlians., [The body was found in a state of entire nudity, his ] skull broken, Ins face mangled and disfigured, and his ' eyes pecked out by the buzzards, and the marks of a 1 bullet upon his left arm, which bullet had also entered his body on the left side. From appearances he had , been shot about a mile from the place where his body ■ lay,-had endeavored to escape-been pursued—beaten » with a stake-and, finally, had his skull broken by his ! pursuer, or pursuers.-The body is described as being! about five feet ten inches in length, about twenty five j or thirty years of age, with sandy hair, light beard, ■ and the two upper fiont teeth projecting a little outwardly, while the corresponding ones of the lower jaw inclined inwardly-the hands being rather delicate and bearing no marks of being hardened by labor. Since! Thursday some clothes have been found, about a mile ! from the place where the body was discovered. The, clothes arc of a coarse texturc-and with them wasfound a pocket bible, containing in writing the words: “Frederick Bunn, presented by the Wells Ladies1 Bible was printed in England.| Nothing has transpired to throw the least possiblo : light upon the questions of who the individual was who ; came thus untimely to his end, and who committed the atrocious deed. Suspicion has settled upon a man re-ceutiy employed upon the Canal, near Peru, of whom the officers of justice are in pursuit.Hennepin Journal.
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Bloomington Post
Bloomington, Indiana, US
Fri, Aug 11, 1837
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