Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 276, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1914 — Body of Winamac Boy found Floating in N. D. River. [ARTICLE]

Body of Winamac Boy found Floating in N. D. River.

The body of Peter Porn, Jr., 22 years of age, whose home was near Winamac, was found floating in the RetFriver, near’ Fargo, N. D-, on Oct. 25th. It was sent to Winamac last' week for burial. The young man had been working in the harvest fields in the northwest and presumably had been murdered and robbed, as his watch was gone and not a cent was found in .his clothes. The body was not identified. Some two weeks ago the lad’s father had advertisements inserted in the newspapers and in this manner learned that the body had been found. The body had been interred at Fargo soon after it was found and the father had it disinterred and shipped back to Winamac in an hermatically sealed casket. • The funeral took ph.ee at St. Peter’s Catholic church last Monday.