Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 218, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1916 — THE PRINCESS TONIGHT [ARTICLE]

THE PRINCESS TONIGHT

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Bodies of Two Men, Believed Murdered, Found Near Watseka.

Watscka, 111., Sept. 10.—The dead bodies of two unknown men, so badly decomposed that they fell to pieces while being recovered, were found in the vault at the rear of the William Bourchcr saloon in Danforth, near here. Mystery surrounds the identity of the men and the manner of jtheir death. The fact that there were two bodies recovered leaves only a bare possibility of suicide and it is generally supposed that the men were murdered and their bodies thrown into the vault. What appears to be an old shoe Was seen protruding from the sli m e and something unnatural about the position of the shoe caused the finder to poke it with a pole. The shoe shifted and revealed a portion of a man’s leg. A hook was brought into play and by the time, the undertaker had.been sent for the ~ody of a man had been brought to the surface. As they raised the body from the water a second body came bobbing to the surface from under the first. This seemed to indicate that one body had been thrown down on top of the other. Almost as soon as the bodies were brought to the outer air they fell apart. When the shoe was pulled from the first man’s foot the leg ca m e in two at the knee and the clothing fell to shreds. The skull from the second body was missing, seeming to indicate that the neck had been broken as the head was later found in the bottom of the vault.