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UNDOUBTEDLY CASE OF MURDEREDWARD GRESSER SLAIN BY AN UNKNOWN.MEWealthy Polk County Farmer Was Probably the Victim of Robbers—Finding of iho Body.Dos Moines, lowh; Oct. 7-—Thoro ap-. pears to k nn doulit that lalwavd t’resrer wne nuinleicd Wednesday night ;u Ilia Immi# In Alien In\vush1|i, :UK)iit IV lidh: ami ii lanlC west uf Avmi. The discolored silul dlfclurled tumulus with nn ugly I ml lei wound In the 1cm-plc. were round ytstcrdny by Utuule* Graves. a farmer, who went to Gress* er'K 111piiru nml looked Ihrwgh n win-dgiv upon Lhe; Hcep^rOf lh| tragedy.Oiomit vh» rtd«utraV*to be worth ahum SLIUU and by many It «*na wildhe kept tbid hidden 111 hlb house, which Is for hack from ilio mad and inert led In n lutid* i|ii:iri«*r pari of tils sd.xty-a.'ie f sir in. While liu (fid Hl court company. Grosser wns genial and well ]1 kf;d. one lived with him un the lurm.Horses and Wagon Gone.Ureaper hud n guid team or liurara ii lid n RprliiR wagon. When Giu\m«-r I leek :iml the friends of the dead man looked over Ibo piiimms h»dh were gone. It 1* prisutned Uro:wr cUln-r.sold Iho nulinnls und wnpui Fume limn tiifure \Ycilnv:a|ny or they were xtuluiL by I he parties wlm imirdon.il hint.The diHeolor^tlnn or the fcnv shown Orrwr hud litcii dejd srvi-r.il limit*at k.i-d, j»rlt;tl;«l.ly Iwn nr Ihri i: duyo..A Ugh*. burning in the honic In the ilavihne nttrartod Mr. Graver.■•J hud nuL pn»n I ho innll si hoc \V«’d* liCRday evening and wondered wlint pail ix'imiie «'f him. Raid Grave*. “Aljftnl midnight YVcdnoarfiiy nkglil. I hoard three revolver FhulP (jnlmcfrom Ihc vicinity nf Ihe ll*SM?r tlmnc. .Smiling was thought of 11. a It Is lint uncommon m hour laddlcis from !*i pf I Uls Moiin'S kh on ling sIbiuiIr hack ami forth when hunting dcscrlera. U Attracted by Lfflht.Today t saw a light mid wont to I he house. Winn I rapped at l!riJVi-r’s d'jor there was r»o response, I tv cmlo Ihc side of the house nnd looked In a I the sill ini:-mom window . Thcro GrcFFcr lay upon Ibo Itunr. Tin* body was dirtily In front of a hlg arm eh.«lf in which Grosser w:ir an-ustoincd to sll. Nnr his body wm Id* pijpv nnd an evening new spa per.• J-lvcry evidence offered by Ihc scene wax I hr. I the man had hoc-n suihh-nly :d lacked and murdered hy a pl*Ult;l shut In Ihc head lie fore I here was :i chain.e t«« struggle. I went at nure. to a Icle-phone ;m*i rallrd for the corohrr atlies Jlfiinc1*.*1 XhcrlFf I.op'-r says It nnmislakubly Is murder and several tfcpmlfs have been iiMsii'nCrt in I he case, dresser wap 1iarh«dnr ant lt;l year* »M.
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The Cedar Rapids Weekly Gazette
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, US
Wed, Oct 11, 1905
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