Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1901 — MURDER IN CHILD’S DEATH. [ARTICLE]

MURDER IN CHILD’S DEATH.

Wealthy Sawmill Owner Accused of Killings Little Girl. Charles Dunn, a wealthy sawmill owner, aged 65, was placed finder arrest at Wallen on the charge of murder. Several days ago Alice Cothrell, aged 10 years, disappeared. She lived four doors from Dunn’s home. The Huntertown Detective Association searched the cistern at Dunn’s home and found the body. The coroner thought that the remains did not look as if death resulted from drowning. After the secret inquest held all day Coroner Barnett ordered the arrest of Dunn. There is evidence of attempted strangulation and the cistern is so constructed as to preclude the theory of accident. A horse driven by Mrs. George Burton, in Princeton, balked in front of a moving train. The buggy was struck and smashed to kindling, but Mrs. Burton escaped I with a broken collar bone and the horse ! was uninjured.