Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1912 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports from Many Parts of the Country SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in Distant and Near, by Cities and Towns—Matters of Minor Mention from Many Places. Mutllaed Body of Little Girl Found After Four Weeks in Swamp. Chicago, 111,, September B. The body of Mary Gru ba, 5 years old, who- was thought to have been kidnaped from her home in Gany, Ind., was found in a Gary swamp to-day, and disclosed a story of shuddering brutality. A chance passer-by parted some bushes and noticed the little gingham dress that partly clothed the mutilated body. The swamp is but four blocks from the Gruba home, and qondltlons of the remains show according to the police, that the little girt was lured into the swamp and attacked.

Mary Gruba is the second child to be murdered in the same way in the swamp, the other being Elsie Schroeder, 7 years old, for whose death William Gaggle is serving a life sentence.