Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 153, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1911 — Grand Jury Has Began an Investigation of Larsen's Death. [ARTICLE]

Grand Jury Has Began an Investigation of Larsen's Death.

The same grand jury that indicted John W. Poole for the death of Joseph Kemper was recalled at Fowler Tuesday and began an investigation of Peter Larsen’s death. The investigation may last for several days. Owing to the fact that the officers were very lax following the discovery of the body of Larsen in the cistern, much, of the evidence that might have beau procured is now missing. The blood stains on the barn door are no lonzer there and the stains on tike'at are gone. The ax itself was found- and is now in the possession of the officers. Some damaging circumstantial evidence has been coming in against Mrs. Larsen. He had planned for a divorce and she wanted more property than she would get if he succeeded in get* king the divorce. She is said to have gone .finder an assumed name when she came to Fowler to nurse Mrs. id* fred Larsen, and the latter’s son State* that she threw the medicine away that was to have been given to his mother. It la also claimed that Mrs. Larsen has been married four times and that each husband died suddenly. Although Mm. Larsen went by the name of Metta Freak, her right name is said to have been Fredericks. Prosecutor John Hall, of Williamsport, now refUse* that she should»4uive been placed under arrest immediately after the discovery of the body and that the investigation should have started at once.