The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-07-23
BODY IDENTIFIED
BUT is NOT THAT
OF WINTERS GIRL

Chicago, July 21.--Anothe. supposed
solution to the mysterious disappear
ance of Catherine Winters. 9-year-old
daughter of DR.. w. A. Winters, of New
Castle, Ind. apparently failed when a
BODY eShumed yesterday in the pot
ter's field at Urbana, ILL.,, vas Identified
by Nicholas Larry, as that of his child.
Detectives had declared the corpse
was that of the missing Winters girl.
who disappeared from home in March
1919. DR.. Winters at New Castle, after
receiving a description of the body de-
clafed it could not be his daughter as
her hair fas brown, while that of the
girl taken from the grave was light
blonde.
Guy Stewart an undertaken said
Larry was the man who had the child
placed in the vault. The corpse lay in
the vault for a year and then was
buried in the potters field because no
one claimed it.
Larry saw the body today and SAID
1t was that Of his daughter. She was
two years old, he said, n died in
Jacksonville, Fla.
The detectives had claimed they
traced the body from New Castle to
Florida and thence to Urban
II don't think she's my little girl"
asserted DR., Winters over the telephone.
My girl had brown hair, while the
little girl whose body they exhumed
had very light blonde hair. I don't
think it's she.
I've been treated SO badly by these
tin star detectives that I take little
faith in their discoveries any more.
more. There's no use of my going to
Champaign, but I've sent an officer
over there just to make sure" DR.. Win
ters added.
It's another plot to run my char
acter." DR.. Winter said. Why, these
detectives even went around town this
morning trying to get the n~eighbors
to swear that my little girl had blond
hair. Everybody knows she had brown
hair, who knew her."
detectives representing an agency of
national reputation caused the body to
be exhumed. Every detail of the miss
ing 9-year-old daughter of DIR. William
"A. Winters, a dentist of New Castle,
Ind, Tailed with tina. of the body, it
was reported. The clothing she wore
on the day she disappeared also was
identified, it was said.
According to the account of the find
ing of the body it had lain for 1a
months in the receiving vault of the
cemetery and then had been buried I'M
claimed in the p%otter's field.
The private detectives arrived in Ur-
bana two days ago They told the,
coroner. j. j. Hanmore, and E. w.
Davis, the sheriff. that they had traced
the body Of Katherine Winters TO
Florida and thence to Champaign
where it had been buried. Hanmore
and Davis We're given a minute de-
scription of the child's clothing and
person. Theodore Brown. sexton of the
cemetery, then was ordered to open the
grave.
Details Correspond.
When the body was exhumed every
detail correspondent with the descrip-
ton, is was said. Brown told the de-
tectives that he could identify the
stranger who brought the BODY to
~ CLEARWATER and Ia orl tL,a +-.o 49,
left Immediately for New Castle.
The detectives traced the BODY to
Florida. they said, and found that from
there it had been shipped to Cham
paign. The maj who was transporting
the box about registered at various
places, it was said. According to Davis
they had a complete record of all his
movements.
Their description of the body was
accurate" said Davis. From the pa
pers they exhibited and their knowl-
edge of the case l judge they are on
the right trail. The mystery appears
to be solved"
katherine Winters disappeared on
March 20. 1913. She had gone out to
sell needles for a church social. The
girls parents said they thought she had
gone to a friends house for dinner and
gave this reason for not informing the
police until the mex day of her failure
to return home.
Ends Nationwide Search.
The girls picture and description
were printed n scattered broadcast.
Business men of New Castle and DR..
Winters raised a fund of $1,000, which
was offered as a reward.
Detectives visited gypsy camps
throughout the country without re-
suits 1t was first thought he girl
had been kidnapped. Mrs. Winters. the
girls stepmother. continually expressed
her belief that the girl la been killed,
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