Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1899 — KILLED WITH A HAMMER. [ARTICLE]

KILLED WITH A HAMMER.

Pretty F.llad Chicago Girl la Mysterii_ onely Murdered. Cora S. Henderson, a blind housekeeper employed by Jean W. Holtslander, was found in- the parlor of the Holtslander home in Chicago the other evening with her skull battered and crushed. Her body was cold and the indications were that fife had been extinct for more than twelve hours. On a window sill in the room the police found a mechanic’s hammer covered with blood stains. They are positive that this was the weapon used