Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 282, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1915 — Dead Body of Man Found In Corn Field Not Identified. [ARTICLE]

Dead Body of Man Found In Corn Field Not Identified.

Three weeks ago the body of a suicide was found in a com field in Carroll county. Thursday ft waa buried at Burlington, no clew to its identity having been discovered. During the three weeks that the undertaken held the partly decomposed ■body several persons from various part® of the country called to see the body but could not identify. Letters were received from many other places but shed no light that might identify the remains. When the body was found a revolver was found at the feet of the man and a bullet hole in the roof of his mouth showed how he came by his death. Tied up in his pockets and in the lining of his coat was SB4. The money Wen* to the undertaker. Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Roberts had as their guest over Sunday J. H. Newton, of Chicago, who had been a clawmate of Mr. Roberts in college, and all three accompanied by Miss Marguerite IrWin, made an automobile trip to Valparaiso.