Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1901 — Woman Strangely Murdered. [ARTICLE]

Woman Strangely Murdered.

Mrs. George W. Lane, wife of a rich retired farmer living two miles north of Canton, 111., was found dead in a woodshed by her husband on returning from Canton on Tuesday morning. She had been strangled. An examination of the body by the coroner’s jury disclosed scratches on her throat, and the imprint of fingers there. Footprints were found leading to the back of the house through a cornfield, and also leading away from the house. A place from which the tracks led was found where some one had been lying, watching the house through a hedge. The object seems to have Been neither assault nor robbery. Mr. Lane is 80 years old and his wife was 40.