Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 276, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1916 — Lapse of Nine Days Adds New Mystery to Girl’s Tragic Death. [ARTICLE]

Lapse of Nine Days Adds New Mystery to Girl’s Tragic Death.

' Pontiac, 111., Nov. 16.—A new note of mystery was added to the tragic death of Christine Deimer today by A. B. Middleton, the physician who performed the autopsy on thft body, who declared that m his opinion the girl’s body was thrown into the Vermltton river not more than three days before it found. * This apparently established a lapse of nine days from the time of her disappearance until the body was thrown into the river. The girl disappeared from the Deimer home Oct. 27 and her body was found in the Vermilion river Nov. 8. Some of the theories advanced were that the girl was murdered the nignt of her disappearance, her body hidden for nine days and then thrown into the river, or while in a hysterical state*of mind she fled into the nearby woods and remained, there until she was attacked. Another theory advanced was she might have been held a prisoner in a hut along the river until she was murdered. Dr. Middleton asserted the woman might have been killed immediately before she was thrown into the river, or several days befqre.