Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 245, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1919 — HUMAN SKELETON IS UNEARTHED IN GRAVEL PIT [ARTICLE]

HUMAN SKELETON IS UNEARTHED IN GRAVEL PIT

Francesville Tribune— The skeleton of a human being was unearthed at noon Monday by the employes of the Lafayette Hydraulic company at the company’s pit, two miles south of that city. The startling discovery was made Py Josepn iroiaen, wno saw ine skuii rolling down the seventy foot embankment. The body had been interred just north of the Monon railroad track and on top of the high bank that led to the old Wabash and Erie canal. According to the employes of the gravel company the skeleton was unearthed about four feet below the ground. How the skeleton came in this out-of-the-way place is not known, but it was suggested it might be that some person who had died on a canal boat, or perhaps was murdered. The point in the canal where the skeleton was unearthed was a turning basin for the canal boats.