Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1912 — MOROCCO MAN FOUND DEAD. [ARTICLE]

MOROCCO MAN FOUND DEAD.

Beath May Have Resulted From Heart Failure or Drinking Carbolic Acid. The body of John N. Burns of the Speck neighborhood, was found in the lumber yard at Morocco Sunday forenoon. The cause of death is not definitely known. Coroner Wickersham held an inquest Monday morning and returned a verdict of heart failure. Later in. the day a bottle thiat had contained carbolic acid was 1 found in the lumber yard, and Tuesday morning when Undertaker Pouter arranged the casket for burial, after it 'had been closed over night, he states that the smell of the acid was plain. Mr. Burns was last seen in Morocco about 10 o’clock Saturday night, and at that time was on hits way to the C. I. & S. depot to take the midnight train to Kentland. His friends believe that in posting the lumber yard he tyecame sick and sat down to resff About a year ago he suffered a stroke of paralysis, and 'has since had attacks of heart trouble.

Another story is related by Joe Lohr of Danville to the effect that Burns called at his home early Friday morning and asked for breaklast. He told Lohr, acjoording to <!>ur informant, Chat ne had been in Chicago, and was drugged, and the first thing he knew was when he awoke that morning in a box ear in Danville. Lohr says he got him transportation to Morocco. But these statements do not compare entirely with facts known here, as Mr. Burns was seen in Kent land at the time he would have been in Chicago according to Lohr’s story. He left t.he home of Aaron Lopp, with whom he lived, on April 2, and they know- nothing of Ms whereabouts since that time. Funeral services w-ere held at Pleasant Grove church Tuesday, conducted by Rev. Hovfs of Trinity church, and burial was made in the cemetery nearby. Barney Burns of Chicago and two sisters of Michigan, Mrs. Harry Walker and Mrs. Robert Lowny, were present. Lewis Burns of Kansas, one brother and one sitter residing in Dakota, and three children in Danville afso survive. John N. Burns was born at Medaryville Aug. 17, 1880. His parents died wl'hen he w-as five years old and he came to reside with his brothers on the Isaac Speck farm,, and has been around this community ,ever since.—Kent land Enterprise.