Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-08-04
The Man Without a Grave

Copyright, 1909 by American Press Asso-
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 The question was. What had become of the body: That Dick Sturtevant was dead was not the question or a question .at all He had been visiting the electrical works of Peter Robin son & Co, was shown through by the electrical engineer, had grasped live rod, receiving some 10000 volts of cleo tricity, and passed from life to death SO quickly that he hadn't the slightest consciousness of the transition. New ertheless an effort was made to resus- citate him, but after half an hours constant application of ail sorts of stimulants without the slightest sign of improvement the work ceased.
 All this happened about 10 o'clock in the morning. The undertaken did not appear till In the afternoon. when the key to the room in which the body lay was handed him, and he went up- stairs. He returned to the office, say ing that there was nobody, dead or alive, In the room and there must be some mistake. Several men declared that they had put Sturtevant's corpse in that very room and there was no mistake about it, but they had never been in that part of the building be- fore and didn't know there were sev eral vacant rooms there. Anyway, there seemed to be some doubt as to which of the rooms had been used. | This doubt grew till the matter was lost in confusion. The only plausible | theory of the disappearance was that the body had been stolen by medical students for dissection. Since there was surgeons college in the neigh borhood, this finally came to be the | accepted explanation.
 1 The heartrending part of it all was that Sturtevant was engaged to be married. Every one sympathized with | the girl he had left behind him, espe- cially that she should be prevented | from paying due respect to- his re- mains. No one else was especially in- | terested since the deceased had been an only child and both his father ana mother were dead. The wedding was to have come off in few days, and 1 the cards were out The bride to be put on mourning, shut herself up and would see no one.
 A year passed. and Miss Minton-- that was the girls name-threw off her mourning. and 1t was reported that she was again engaged to wed. Then everybody said that she had been shamming about her grief for Sturte- want, had had another lover most of | the time since his death and had only waited the conventional year allotted | to widows to marry another man. These reports were repeated to the lady, and they made her very angry.
 It was supposed to be on this ac- count that she did not give the name of her new lover-that is, if she had one which must be since she did not deny the reports of her engagement. Besides, it was known that she was having certain articles of her trous- seau of year before altered to meet changes in fashion, doubtless to be used as an outfit In her marriage with the man who had taken the first lov- CTS place. This set everybody talk ing. 'It's shameful" said Mrs. Cloudy, "the way that girl has treated poor Sturtevant-going to wear the same things she was to have worn on her honeymoon with him. Why. she hasn't even given him hcadstone."
 Where would she put it?" inquired Miss Reasoner
 "Oh. yes; didn't think of that. At all events. it's shocking about the rousseau. And think how soon she has been consoled! The courtship must have begun as soon as Sturtevant died, if not beforc'
 Kind friends--there are always kind friends to tell us disagreeable news kept Miss Minton posted as to all this talk. and in the meanwhile there sprang up universal desire to know