Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1900 — An Overworked Sensation. [ARTICLE]

An Overworked Sensation.

The sensational papers at Chicago and the telegraph liar at Crown Point are running a "race as to which will the most overwork that alleged human bead finding at Cedar Lake. The Crown Point Anannias is now eeveral points ahead. Th» sack when first found was alleged to have contained some fine hair that must have been from a man’s head, and some false teeth and a dental plate that surely came from a woman’s mouth. The Crown Point liar uses these two alleged facte, to invent a theory of two heads and a double murder. To give plans ibility to the theory, the boy who found the sack is now.made to say that when ho pulled it up something dropped back. That of course was the other bead. Over on the west side of the lake the people believe the whole thing is a fake, worked up by the people of the east side, where the find was made, to draw people there, to give their hotels, saloons and boat owners a little business. The weat-siders say all the sack contained was a small assortment of deceased cate.