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PALOS CISTERNYIELDS BODY OFVictim Bound With Wire andDrowned In Abandoned FarmWell In Forest Preserve,93rd and 100th AvenueMAY BE “ALKY” VICTIMPalos Forest Preserve gave up another murder mystery Tuesday.Bound hand and foot with wires and weighted with stones and bricks, the body of a man about 35 years old, who had been shot through the head, was discovered Tuesday in a cistern xn the forest preserve, near 93rd St. and 100th Ave., Palos Township.Apparently the man had been murdered about a month ago—posisblymore, according to the county high-idvway police who took the body from the water.The victim was about 5 feet 11 inches tall, dark with heavy black hair. He wore a suit of dark blue, a shirt of grayish silk, a black necktie, and patent leather shoes. On one of the fingers was a gold, ring set with a blue stone. On the belt was a buckle with the initial A.The sole police theory is that the man, who seemed to be a Sicilian or ah Italian, had been “taken for a ride” and assassinated by his enemies. Chief Leroy Davidson of the county highway police believs from the circumstantial evidence that the .death should be laid to the alcohol or beerwars.i % . ►refused to drink. Passing the wellagain, on Tuesday the boys stopped totki;investigate. Poking around in the depths they saw the body. Other members of the family notified the county highway police at Willow Springs and Lieut. Carl Wolf, with deputies Conway, Palmer and Freekleton were sent to investigate.At the county morgue, where the body was taken, Coroner’s Physician Springer learned from a label that the suit worn by the man had1 been purchased at Klein’s clothing store, Cullerton and Halsted street..tHEAVBHX was busy, vcr£ busy, ~ -•lt;—And I locked my study 3ob# When I heard the pitter-patter I Of wee feet along the door And a voice said: “lie *su»fcs In a childish treble clear; at I shut my ears against It. And pretended not to hear.1]1ii8ien there came the geatfe ; Of a podgy little fist.Near the cistern is the site of the old John Balok house that was burned last winter. Bricks taken from the ruins were Used to weight the hands of the victim.The discovery was made by John Novak, 13 years old. and his 11 year od brother Joseph. They had gone in the early afternoon to water their horses in the cistern, but the animalsAnd I ’most could see the grieving | Of the lips my Bp* had kissed, And again the voice came to me,! It was now surprised and sad; Said my little baby, grieving,| Me des hag my dad.*ten I opened aide the portal And I let her her dad|^Sach a love? it was! If heaven ; Holds a thrill that’s hah as gMI As her. little arms brought , to me . When I gave her pleadings heed [And I let my baby *Ttign tne» c It is heaven then, indeed*/PHILOSOGRIH ^f Some men are more of f tseu*^ [In all men call successes, than I am for will ever be; but that thought ne’er distresses. The sky is mine; the sea it mine, and mine the summerbreezes,- and little chfldren love tc-come and perch upon my kaecses, .'•-CfcwdfimA--War Hymn*s First Namee . •The MarseMaise, the popular French patriotic song, was first called the “Wav Song of the Army of the Rhine” but was later named for the revolutionists of Marseilles, who sang it as they entered Paris. .....
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Suburban Star
Morgan Park, Illinois, US
Thu, Jun 11, 1925
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