Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1911 — WANT MYSTERY SOLVED [ARTICLE]

WANT MYSTERY SOLVED

Petitions Ask that Reward be Offered for Larsen Slayers Lafayette, Ind., July 10 Petitions were filed with the commissioners of Benton county at Fowler, asking that SI,OOO be appropriated, to be offered as a re,ward for the detection of the person who murdered Peter Larsen, the aged Dane, whose body was found floating in a cistern in the rear of his hom,e ten days ago and whose death the grand jury decided was caused by some other hand than his own The grand jury in its report found that Larsen cculd not have inflicted the injuries that caused his death and that they must have been caused by another persbn. The report of the grand jury leaves the case a mystery as the coroner found Larsen commit ted suicide ‘ ;