Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 229, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1920 — HOLES CAUSE WONDER [ARTICLE]

HOLES CAUSE WONDER

Mysterious Excavation* That Lvok Like Grave*. Mysterious holes dug by strangers In the ground near Waymansvllle in Bartholomew county. Indiana, are the source of much bewilderment to thf residents of the village and suhroun* Ing community. The first was discovered two weeks ago on the farm of William Barkheimer. It was freshly dug. six feet long, four feet wide and six feet deep, resembling a newly-made grave. John McCord was driving a team along a road little used, when his horse became frightened at an automobile Sparked back in the woods. McCord went to the machine and found two men in it They explained that they had driven off the road to rest. The discovery of the large hole not far from where the car stood was made the next day. Lately two more holes were found, one on the Rudolph farm and one on the Macey farm, about one mile apart, in the Beck’s grove neighborhood. The excavations are similar in shape and size to the first one found. One of them was dug soon after two strangers were seen in the vicinity, and the other shortly after four- men had called at the home of Mrs. Sarah Sutherland and inquired the way to Mount Healthy.