The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-01-29
WOMAN KILLED
FOR HER MONEY
AND BODY THOWN IN THE RIVER
AT NASHVILLE is NOW THE
BELIEF.
CORPSE WAS IDENTIFIi D
AS Remains Of Missing Nashville Wo-
man as Reslt of investigation
Started BY The
Bulletin


in the river here last Thursday has
been identified as that Of Mrs. J. O.
Mangrum. of Ma hyille Tenn the
story of whose mysterious disappear
ance was published In yesterday 5
issue of The Bulletin
j. o. Mangrum the husband of the
deceased and Mrs Logan Trousdale,
the sister. arrived mere yesterday
morning at 2.30 and Immediately
went to the morgue where the cloth
ing of the unfortunate young woman
was at once recognized although no
marks of Identification en- the body
could be found.
All the theories advanced upon the
case. however vague and indiscrimi.
nate they may be. are based upon the
one primary explanation-foul play.
In fact there seems to h. no doubt in
the minds of the many who have be-
ONE acquainted with the case
through the search for the missing
woman, but that she was foully and
oremeditately murdered.
The Nashville city detective de
Dartment has been called upon to
work out the mystery of her death
he theory upon which they are work
ng land the most plausible one)
being that she was murdered before
she ever got away from Nashville for
her money, $1,000 and jewels worth
1880. When she left home the
money was in her stocking, the sup
porter of which was cut and the stock
ng pulled down. The other stocking
and supporter were intact Four dia-
nond rings and one ruby had been on
Mrs Mangrum's left hand the glove
70 which as we'll as the rings was
gone when the body was found in the
river. AS in the case Of the stockings
the right hand was still covered by the
glove. The circumstances are taken
indicate Enthusiastically robbery.
Mrs Mangrum relatives have been
Unable to find thar she bought a sleep
ng car ticket and railroad employees
10 not recall having seen her on the
rains on the night of Dec Il when
he was due to have left for either
st. Louis or Chicago.
DR.. James McManus, the coroner
tated it as his opinion that all life
vas extinct before the body was
brown into the river He also believes
that chloroform was the medium by
which Mrs Mangrum came to her
death
A body may be preserved indeti-
ltely in water al this time of the year
wing to the low temperature. II Will
not rise until tn9 gases form and until
t does come 10 the surface will hardly
move from its original position. The
p ime usually set Is from ten TO thirty
lays. sometimes longer.
Allowing this length Of time go
lays it would leave period of
twelve days to pass before the body
reached Cairo.
The motive. the $4,000. is plainly
apparent bit who the parties to the
crime may be-he she, or they, yet
emains TO be d discovered.
The husband and the sister while
ieTe stopped az the Hotel Illinois.
where ia an interview with a repre-
sentative of The Bulletin. the sister
said: "There is no doubt but that this
y the body OF our dear Rosa We
recognized the clothes the minute We
saw them. They were the same she
wone when. last seen. b.. II. firmly be
lieve,r she said; that my sister has
been most foully murdered " As to
her plans for the future Mrs Trou-
dale would say but little.
The body was sealed m 4 copper
lined casket AND shipped 70 Nashville
On Illinois Central train No. > yester
day afternoon. the hereavei Telatiyes
accompanying d.
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