Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-03-02
MURDER WAS FlENDlSH
Crime Just Cleared up was Most Bru.
tai In Annals of Ottumwa Police

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| Records.
| On the night of the terrible trae
| cay after dining with her parents
cneertully passing light remarks to
ner younger brother, Fred Rosen
cara Rosen left her home on Plum
street to go to that Of her sisters
Mrs. G. Q. Nelson on Dare street, from
Where they were TO go to an entertain.
ment. Never thinking that any dan.
ger would befall her, she refused the
escort OF her brother and with the re.
marx that 1T was light and that she
would go by the roundabout way. she
started out alone That was the last
the grleved parents and family saw
OF her alive. Eight o'clock came and
she mad not arrived at the Nelson
nome. hurried telephone call nv
MRS. Nelson to her mother. brought
forth the information that Clara ha \
lelt ABOUT $50 o'clock, and terrified
mat some mlshap had overtaken her
ne long persistent search was i'm
meolately begun. Hundreds of neigh
nors, relatives and friends of the far
ny ana victim from early in the even.
INK az night long, searched diligent.
~. Inc progress Of the dead girl was
retraced, step by step, her girl friends
were all communicated with in the
nope that she had perchance changed
her mind abort accompanying her Sis
Ter TO the entertainment and had gone
visiting. Nothing was left undone tn
fathom the mysterious disappearance
OF MISS Rosen. The night hours grew
INTO morning. AS the minutes nassad
tne searchers became more thoroush
IN thelr search. 2 o'clock was reach
cd, and the fruitlexy ness of the invcs
tlgatlon prompted some Of the parry
10 return to their homes, but not 81
Win Fred Rosen and his companion
QUO Johnson. They with some of the
police searched on and on, and after
securing the hills in the vicinity of
the crime for the third time. thew re.
turned to the spot where the awful
deed was committed
Make Grewsome Find.
Proceeding up the slight incline TO
the vacant lot, the horrifying sight of
the mutilated body of his sister was
hrst seen by her brother, Fred. I'm
mediately Johnson and Officer Charles
peterson was summoned, and the
greWsome sight was made all the
more clear before the grief stricken
eyes of the beloved brother. Tenderly
the body was lifted from the excava-
ton and placed on the grass above.
me offlcer gaining admission to the
nome Of Frank Williams, not thirty
feet away, telephoned to Headquarters
and to the undertaken The BODY was
removed at once to the parlors Of c.
I. Sullivan. The rock, with which the
brutal murder was committed Law he
side the body, and near by were found
hair pins, fragments of clothes and
other evidences that a terrific death
struggle had ensued.
Many Attend Funeral.
The following Tuesday, February 9
the funeral Of the dead girl was held
To the grief stricken parents and 9th.
er relatives the sympathy of legion
of friends was expressed in floral Of
ferings of immense size and quantity.
The services at the Swedish Lutheran
church, of which Miss Rosen was a
member, were in speech and song,
eloquent in the praise Of the young
lady. and when the last sad rites were
completed at the grave in Ottumwa
cemetery, all joined with the heart
broken mother, the loving father
sisters, brothers and near relatives in
expressing the high esteem in which
the slain girl was held and in grief
at the sudden taking off Of such a one,
whose every action in life was
mirror through which nothing but
love for her neighbor and
duty to parents and friends was re-
hected.