Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-12
FINDS BROTHER SLAIN
Sisters Presentiment of MUIR
der Is Verified.
SHE LEADS WAY TO GRAVE
Feeling That Something Awful Had
Happened Reveals Tragedy.
MISSING NEIGHBOR ARRESTED
Circumstantial Evidence Points to
Him as Slayer of Young
Farmer.
SHE LEADS WAY TO GRAVE
MISSING NE1GHBOR ARRESTED

| CHICAGO. November 12.-Out on a
desolate little plot OF ground two miles
! north of Marengo girl has uncovered
a murder mystery the details of which in
dictate a cold-blooded crime
| The body of Oscar Hoganson. a young
farmer who was living the life of
hermit his own farm, has been dug
out of the soft earth of chicken house
on the farm of John NJ. Bedford. Just
a few feet away bloody Ratchet was
unea-thed.
Bedford, like Hoganson had been living
alone on his farm but disappeared i'm
medately after Hogansons death. Such
a mass of circumstantial evidence was
discovered which pointed to him that
| when he finally was found in Ellis, Neb.,
he was arrested
He now is being brought back to Chica-
go. The man was taken while on his
way to see his mother at Beatrice, Neb.
\ strange presentiment of the dead
mans sister, Arvilla HogansoE. is credited
with the discovery of the body. The girl
cannot explain the feeling which caused
her to visit the place and lead the search
ers to dig in that particular spot.
Her Presentiment Verified.
She was certain however. she had reach
ed the grave of her murdered brother.
The diggers soon verified her belief.
The work of unraveling the mystery be-
gan more than week ago, when Arvilla
began to worry because her brother had
failed to write his weekly letter. The
girl declared that some awful thing had
happened to him. although she had no in
formation upon which to base such
belief.
After two days it was decided to visit
the farm and learn Just what had hap
pened to Hoganson. So Arvilla. accom-
panied by her brother James, visited the
place early one emorning about a week
ago.
The house was found in seemingly good
| order The mans clothes and belongings
appeared to be he might have left
them, with one exception. His three
| horses were missing.
Inquiry was made among the neighbors
Somebody remembered having seen Ho-
ganson walking toward the farm of Bed
| ford. a distance Of about a mile, on the
| morning of October %.
Other neighbors remembered having
seen man whom they supposed was
Bedford at Hogansons place in the even
horses. The other two horses. they de-
clared. were hitched to the rear of the
rig.
| A few days after this Bedford left the
| district.
Leads Way to Grave
Miss Hoganson stood silent listener
to the statements and theories of the
farmers.
II am satisfied the thing to do is to
visit this man Bedford's place. she said.
Il have feeling that we are going to
settle this thing right there
So the sister and brother. together with
crowd of curious farmers. hurried to
Bedford's place. The girl walked
straight to the chicken house. The floor
OF the house was paved smoothly with
| round cobblestones
The girl called attention to the fact
and replaced again. The men began
working with picks and shovels.
The girl. weak with the certainty
| that the body of her brother was about
| would have left the place.
Villa. We have got it, exclaimed
| the brother. at the same time drawing
from the ground a muddy coat sleeve,
which contained the arm of the dead
| man.
The girl staggered back from the
| shed and. while the others continued
their work. hurried to the house. In
the meantime her brother had eluded
the curious ones. and had entered the
house by an open window.
In the parlor he saw bloodstains on
| the walls and floor of the room near
inc door. Ihere had been efforts to
wash the spots from the floor
Killed With an Ak.
When the murdered mans body was
examined it was discovered that the
wound upon his left temple was so
clean and SO deep that it was at first
pronounced to be gunshot wound
| The coroner's jury, which was gathered
together at once, returned a verdict
accordingly.
A few days later after the body
had been brought to Chicago and
buried. 1t was suggested the bullets
should have shown another wound on
| the other side of the head If 1t was
fired as close as such deep wound
would have indicated. So the body was
disinterred. Closer examination devel-
oped that the wound had been caused
by powerful blow with some blunt
| Instrument.
| The interchangeable James Hoganson
still was staying in the vicinity of the
| farm. So he made a search for such
a weapon. 1t was but a matter of a
few minutes when, in the rear of the
| chicken shed in which his brothers
body had been buried, he found the
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