The Forrest City times., 1905-12-22

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 Secret Society Suspected
 The authorities or all the northern counties began to watch for mysterious strangers in carriages. also for religious cranks. It was finally believed that the was the work of some new mysterious secret society, working among the citizens, for in no other way could the country police explain ths midnight visits of the eross-destroyer and tue failure to find any trace Of ! stranger in the vicinity.
 The country districts were aroused, but it was not thought that the fanatics would dare to visit city graveyard Oconto, however. was the next victim, and two cemeteries were smashed, dam age of more than 32.009 being caused The same night cemetery in the west ern part of the county a considerable distance from a railroad. was visited This seemed 10 destroy the theory tha. one fanatic was doing the dork.
 Reward Offered for Captura
 After the Oconto visit the number os cemeteries ravaged increased rapidly h two weeks dozen had been iet- wrecked. The cross-smas hing epidemic spread north into Michigan. One night at Escsanaba the cross-smasher. not sat isfed with wrecking the stone mont ments. piled all the wooden crosses into a pile. and % graves were left with na mark at all no record 10 show who was inferred there. The Catholic societies offered rewards, but in vain.
 Bishop Fox. of the Catholic diocese of Green Bay. declared the feeling of his people was such that there would cer- tainly be a lynching when the fanatic should be captured. In all this time DO Protestant cemetery was touched.
 Suspect Taken.
 Some days after the Escanaba episode, Gladstone, to the north was visited The same night q suspect was captured at Escanaba, and though his patched shoes fitted the impression left In the Eseanaba cemetery. he was able to show that he had reached Eseanaba frt m ths south the day Of his arrest.
 He talked nationally and was rel eased. Three hours after lis release a ceme- tery 10 the west of the city was raided been able to catch Il train to get to ths country graveyard 10 smash the crosses and return. with only a few minutes to spare. The EseaEaba police though. this was evidence that two or more were at work.
 Caught in the Act.
 The next night the Ishpeming ceme. tery was visited. The following night a Segannee men on guard saw a mat lurking among the f0mbstones anG watched him lift stone and with 6 well-directed blow knock the cross on a monument as claaniy as though ithar been done with a chisel.
 The man was the ole who had beer arrested and released at Escanaba Every graveyard in northern Michigau and Wisconsin had been under guard but some had been ravaged so quietl, that the guards had heard nothing
 The prisoner was taken to Marquette where he gave his name as Kazo Kazi mir He said he vas stonecutter and his behavior indicated that he was in- sane. The authorities had been so pug zled by the manner in which he had ap- peared, as though by magic. at widely distant points, that it was thought i'm possible he had done the work alone. Two months have passed however, and there has been no more cross-smashing Reveals Story While Hypnotized
 During this two months the police have vainly endeayored to learn some thing of his former life. Their efforts were in vain until a specialist hypno- tized the man, and he dug up from q big old pipe which he continually car ried time-wOrn scrap of letter. dated Nadudyar, Hungary. which reve aled ths story of shattered romance.
 kaZo Kazimir was the son of peas- ant, but had determined 10 become a priest. His lowly condition proved no bar to his ambition. He passed his noyi- tiate and was soon to be ordained One day he saw girl, Maria Kakosvakacz
 
 faded, and the young p.iest-to-be be made desperate love to the girl. She repulsed him, saying he was d disgrace to the church. Thereupon he renouaced his vows. declared his intention of becom- ing doctor and again sought the girl.
 She avoided him. and he wrote a note asking her to meet him. The letter found In his pipe was her reply, of which th,s is a translation:
 Renounced by Loved One.
 Thoa renegade priest. Sooner would die than ee the woman of a false man 10 his church. Jan Snoviske will bs my man
 According 10 letters from Hungary, received after an investigation of this note. kazo became silent after his dis missal by his sweetheart
 Summed by chu-chmen, barred from his fathers house fer his assertion Of the church. he became despondent and