Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 232, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1913 — MAY HAVE BURIED HIS WIFE ALIVE [ARTICLE]

MAY HAVE BURIED HIS WIFE ALIVE

Man Near Peru Struck Wife, In . Head With Hammer and Buried Her in Nearby Cornfield.

Clinton Wilkinson, 32 years of age, is in jail at Peru, charged with first degree murder. He had lived near Cass Ville, Miami county, and on August 29th his wife disappeared. They had had trouble and Wilkinson was seeking a divorce. Saturday her body was found buried in a cornfield near where they had lived. He was arrested and at onee confessed, saying that he had struck her over the head with a hammer when she was trying to kill him after a “quarrel. He said the act had been committed in the presence of their two sons, tged 1(1 and 3 years. He said that he was not sure she was' dead when he buried her.