Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 150, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1911 — PUBLIC NOT SATISFIED WITH SUICIDE THEORY. [ARTICLE]

PUBLIC NOT SATISFIED WITH SUICIDE THEORY.

Larsen’s Sister Wants Investigation Of Fowler Sensation, Believing Brother Was Murdered. Public sentiment at Fowler, has demanded a thorough investigation ot |jiie mysterious death* of Peter Larsen, an aged citizen of that town, whose body was found in a cistern at his home Friday morning with the head completely covered with ax cuts. Coroner Arthur LeSage returned a verdict Saturday finding that Larsen came to his death by cutting and drowning and that it was suicide, thus exonerating Mrs. Larsen, who was under suspicion. Larsen’s sister, Mrs. Rasmussen, ol Chicago, is in Fowler and believes that her brother was murdered, because the body, when found In ti& well, was floating and there was no water in the lungs. Sunday a postmortem was held on the body after it nad been prepared for burial and $ grand jury investigation, it is said, will be asked for Monday by Fowler citizens.