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Ira Pover Indicted For Slaying Claud Litner, Sioux City Man, In Sioux County Last March. Orange City, Tas Jan, 28.—The grand jury yesterday returned an indictment for murder in the Orsi degree against Ira Paver. From the evidence introduced before the grand jure it appears that “Red” urnetic, who was shot and killed by Osseer PBraion, in a restaurant at Sioux City last summer, a woman whom he introduced as his wife and Pavey were secon in the vicinity of Per kins, Sugux county, Towa, on the ever ing of March 8 1918, Burszcitte and the woman driving a Dodge car and Waver a Panick. The next morning Claude Litner was fund dead in a fivdd near Perkins with a bullet bede through his head. Nearby tus Pord car had been run into the bank by the side of the road. The ig nition and sight switches were on and the car was stained in high gear. That Sunday morning, Durzette, the woman and Pavey delivered 11 cases of whisky to a customer at Wessington, S. C. The cases were stained with fresh food and a pool of blood had gathered on the back cushion of the buick car. According to the story told by Burzette to one of the witnesses, they had seen the Ford coming from the north and Burzette and Pavey had chased the car and overtaken it. Its occupant, Claude Litner, had shown fight, he had snapped a revolver on Burzette’s face without effect. Pavey had knocked Litner down and the two then transferred the causes of whisky from the Ford to the Buick. Litner had climbed into the Buick and com menced to yell and Pavey then shot him.* They then dragged the body into the field and returned to where the woman was waiting with the Dodge, and from there they had gone to Wes sington with the whisky. Burzette had given the revolver with which the murder was committed, to his wife, it is said, and several wit nesses testified that they had later seen her have a revolver answering its de scription. Pavey is serving a two-year sen tence at Jefferson City, MO. In all Probability he will be brought here for trial at the coming March term of the district court. Editor's Note—Linner was a Stony City man. To the public his murder has remained something of a mystery, though it was the theory of state agents at the time that he was engaged in the booze running business and that he had been murdered by bandits who inter cepted him to secure his cargo of booze being brought to Sioux City from Min nesota. | :
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Moville Mail
Moville, Iowa, US
Thu, Jan 29, 1920
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