Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 302, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1912 — QUICKLIME USED IN FLESH DISPOSAL [ARTICLE]

QUICKLIME USED IN FLESH DISPOSAL

Murder at Richmond £wo Tears Ago Just Discovered—Body Beneath Own Kitchen. On Sept. sth, Henry Dayton, 45 years of age, disappeared from his home at Richmond, Ind. No suspicion attached to Joseph P. Snyder nor to Dayton’s wife. A few days ago Snyder disappeared. He had been living with Mrs, Dayton since the murder. She then turned a letter over to the poliee which he had written Dec. 2nd, 1911, in which he confessed to having'killed Dayton and buried him beneath the kitchen in quicklime. The officers investigated and found Dayton’s skeleton. Snyder is a fugitive from justice and Mrs. Dayton, who is quite sick, will be arrested as an accomplice to the murder as soon as she is well enough to sit up.