Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 92, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 February 1919 — BODY OF A ROSELAWN MAN [ARTICLE]

BODY OF A ROSELAWN MAN

Found ’in Cincinnati Hidden in Sacks in an Old Vacant House. Cincinnati, Feb. 11.—The mystery that grew out of the finding of a man's body, dissected and hidden in sacks in a vacant house in West 4th street, was partly cleared up today when Miss- Amanda Blymer, notary public, identified the murder victim as Albert E. Thompson, 33 years old, of Roselawn, Indiana. The body was found last Saturday. Miss Blymer told Coroner A. C. Bauer that a caller who said he was Albert E. ’-Thompson of Roselawn asked her to collectthree notes due his. brothers for $231. “Thompson told me he had been robbed of $1.50 by a negro,” the notary said. “That was last Friday morning; he told me he was going to the Salvation Army to complain. “The man said, ‘I am Alber.. Thompson, but I am known on the river front as Red.’ He told me he was a victim of heart' trouble and came’ to Cincinnati from. a hospital at Hamilton, O. Other identifications were made by Salvation Army officials and employes of the United States employment service, where Thompson had applied for work. Thompson appeared at the railroad depot last Wednesday night with a gang of workmen. He had been drinking, the police were told, and left the station because the train was late. No motive other than robbery has so far been advanced by the police.

The body, when found, was inclosed in several sacks and was lyI ing on the kitchen floor in full view of the yard near by. A negro boy playing in the yard made the I discovery. . The police believe that the man was murdered some dis- ! tance from the house, the body ’ drained of the blood and then J placed in the sacks with the purpose of hiding it away until aq opportune time to deposit it piece by piece in the rivpr. The police believe that the murderer or murderers were frightened and left the body in the house in their haste to get away.

Roselawn, Ind., Feb. 11. —Albert E. Thompson, who is said to have been murdered in -Cincinnati, 0., was unmarried and a brother of A. C. and John Thompson, who are farmers near here. Albert Thompson had recently visited his brothers in this county. He had worked as a farm hand at Knox, North Judson and Shelby. Word was sent to the Thompsons tonight stating that the body at Cincinnati has been identified as that of theit brother.