The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-08-15
MORON MURDERS
YEAR OLD GIRL
Body of Child Found in Gut
ter, Wrapped in Gunny-
sacks and Wire
STRANGLED TO DEATH
Bald-headed Man, About 40
Years Old, Being Hunted
by Minneapolis Police

Minneapolis, Aug. 14.-Dorothy
Aune 12-year-old Minneapolis
school girl, found murdered in a
street gutter here today, under con-
ditions almost Identical with the
fendish murder two years ago of
Marion Parker at Los Angeles for
which Edward William Hickman
paid his life on the gallows.
The body of the child was thrust
into two gunny sacks, tightly
bound with Irvine and wire and ap-
parently thrown from an automo-
bile.
Deputy Coroner C. A. Hobbs, de-
clared she had been assaulted, and
strangled to death.
Police Immediately began one of
the most thorough manhunts in the
history of Minneapolis for a"bald-
headed man about 40 years old"
whom Sylvia Aune, 20, sister of the
slain child said, had been trying
to entice little girls into his auto
mobile.
Within two hours after the BODY
was found on Hiawatha avenue by
William Stoakes and w. c. Hoag,
icemen at z a. M, Andrew w. Aune,
the father, a carpenter, Sylvia, and
Ellif, a brother, identified the body.
Eilif broke into tears when he
saw the havoc wreaked upon his
little sister by the fiend and cried
out:
'I'll hunt this devil down and
get vengeance if it takes my whole
life.
This terrible crime will be
avenged" the almost hysterical boy
continued as he picked up the
child's body from morgue slab
and caressed it.
Dorothy's body had been horribly
treated. Her clothing was covered
with blood.
The slender little form had been
thrust into gunnysacks, one over
the head and one over the feet. All
about her body was bound Irvine
and fine wire. The hands tied be-
hind her back and the mouth was
stuffed with cotton.
About the throat was a heavy
throng of Irvine which caused her
death.
Dorothy left her home at o'clock
Tuesday to go to a grocery store
four blocks away on an errand. She
never reached the store.
Police believed she was abducted
by some person driving an automo-
bile and carried away to the place
where she was assaulted and brut-
ally murdered.
Sylvia gave officers complete
description of the stranger whom
she had seen several times during
the past week in the Aune neigh
borhood.
He wore no hat, Sylvia said, was
bald, had on grey shirt and was
of slight build His car wSs a
coach.
When Dorothy left home on her
tragic errand she had on a red
tam, pink dress and orange sweat
e..
BY a strange twist of fate lit
tie neighbor girl offered to accom-
pany Dorothy to the store but the
Aune child answered:
"Never mind, I'll be all right"
Several hours later when she
failed to return home the family
notified police of her absence and
they were the first called today
when the body was found under
such horrible conditions.
It was believed the child's body
had been thrown intos the gutter
today, sometime between 5 a. m.
and z a. m. N. r. Wall, railway
freight inspector, passed the spot
shortly before o'clock and said
there was nothing there at that
time
Just about Z a. M when Steaks
and Hoag passed the place with
their ice wagon on the usual morn
ing rounds they made the grue-
some discovery and at once called
police.
The body was rushed to the
morgue for examination and the
full extent of the foul deed realized.
Police were sent into all parts of
the city, highways were guarded
and every effort was made to APP
prehend the fiend at once. Officers
said every suspicious character
would be rounded up and thorough
ly questioned.