Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1919 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Tilsgraphic Reports From Many Parts ot thi Country. SHORT DITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in the Nearby Cities and Towns— Matters of Minor Mention From Many Localities. f- - - SON-IN-LAW ALLEGED KILLER Of Aged Wealthy Widow at Hoopeston, Ill.—Now Under Arrest. Fred Buehler, aged 60, son-in-law of Mrs. Sabina Cummins, the aged wealthy widow who was found murdered in her home at Hoopeston, 111., Sunday, Nov. 9, has been arrested, charged with the murder. Buehler admits, according to the authorities, that he took a piece of meat from a butcher shop to the Cummins home on Saturday night, when the crime Is supposed to have been committed- He said that Mrs. Cummins was alive at that time. He denies that he went back to the home later or that he had anything to do with the murder. After Mrs. Cummins’s body was found In the house Sunday an examination of her clothing revealed SIB,OOO sewed up In ner skirts. She owned more than 600 acres of land near Hoopeston and also owned property in (Hioopeston. It was said that she always kept large sums of money about the house. No will has been found.