Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1911 — EYESIGHT WAS FAULTY AND EXCITEMENT FOLLOWED. [ARTICLE]

EYESIGHT WAS FAULTY AND EXCITEMENT FOLLOWED.

Man Reported Having Found Body of A Woman—Coroner Was Called— Proved to Be a Horse. There was some excitement here today. . The excitement~waß~ J not only-In. Rensselaer but at Remington also and in all the country between these two places. Some one reported that the body of a woman had been found buried at the edge of a hay stack on a farm one mile west of Sharon and about half ' ——'—— \ m way between Rensselaer and Remington. The farm 'is occupied by John Shellheart. - ' Dr. A. P. Rainier, of Remington was notified and he called Coroner Wright. The whole neighborhood learned about it and there was intense excitement. There were many conjectures as to who the dead woman might be and many theories were advanced to indicate that some automobilist may have been passing through the country with a wbman and had committed murder and the woman there. Others thougur that some onto in the neighborhood might have committed the deed. The coroner and his assistants started to uncover the supposed womttn and almost all the country people were gathered round about to see if they could identify the remains. Only a few shovelfulls of dirt had been removed when the bristles of a horse’s tail protruded from the ground. Then some one remembered that John Shellheart had buried a horse there about two months ago. The coroner was mad, some of the people were disappointed, and all felt chagrined. Coroner Wright suggested that it might be a good idea to find out who had started so wild a story and get his face punched or something worse. It was crude joke if it was aimed as a joke. It was a ridiculous blunder otherwise.