Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1890 — LURED TO THEIR DEATH. [ARTICLE]

LURED TO THEIR DEATH.

Wealthy Young Englishmen Enticed Across the Water and Murdered. Toronto (Ont.) dispatch: There have been some startling developments in connection with the murder of the young Englishman, Frederick C. Benwell, whose body was found in a swamp near Woodstock, Ont. J. Burchell, who was arrested the other day, was brought before a magistrate at Niagara Falls. Ont. The whole affair seems to point to an organized gang in London, of which Burchell was the chief actor, the object of which was to lure the sons of wealthy English people to Canada, presumably to take an interest In ah extensive horse raising farm at Niagara Falls. Peter Schwab, aged 27 years, a laborer at the Niles Tool works, Columbus, Ohio, was killed by the fall of an armor plate, weighing half a ton, from a crane. Jules Cebf has been appointed receiver for the wholesale tobacco firm of L. and E. Wertheimer & Co. of San Francisco