Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1909 — MURDER MYSTERY GROWS. [ARTICLE]

MURDER MYSTERY GROWS.

Doubt That Dismembered Body Was That of the Rev. Carmichael. Detroit, Jan. 8.—The Rev. J. H. Carmihael [Carmichael] and Gideon Browning, a carpenter, are missing from their homes in Adair, St. Clair county, and the ashes and human fragments taken from the heating stove of the Methodist church at "Rattle Run.” near Columbus, have been removed to Port Huron for microscopic examination. This was the sum total of developments in the Carmichael murder mystery. To determine whether either of the missing men was the victim of the murder or to locate either of the two is the problem the St. Clair county authorities are wrestling with. Doubt has been expressed as to whether it could be stated positively as yet whether the dismembered body found in the stove of the country church was that of a man or a woman, so fragmentary are the parts that remain for the doctors to work upon. Among other rumors that gained currency was one that the Rev. Carmichael had been located alive in St. Thomas, Ont.