Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 265, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1910 — Sad Death of Boys. [ARTICLE]

Sad Death of Boys.

A gruesome discovery which has solved the mystery of the disappearance of two boys at Hanover, Germany, .was made the other week by some soldiers while engaged in removing from a shed one of the heavy forage wagons which had not been used for some time. The lads had been missing for a month and, despite all the efforts of their parents and of the police, no trace could be found of them. It would appear that the lads, while playing must have climbed unobserved into the empty wagon, and that the heavy lid must have fallen and shut them in. The soldiers found the dead bodies of the unfortunate children within the wagon, with every indication of the terrible struggle they had made for life. Indeed, the boys had evidently ended by losing their reason, and had attacked one another, biting and kicking each other with savage ferocity until exhaustion and death at length supervened. Their clothing was torn to shreds, their hair wad torn out, and their sac« were terribly scratched and bruised,