Iowa
Old Press
Osage News
Osage Mitchell Co. Iowa
February 23, 1911
SUSPICIONS OF FOUL PLAY
J. G. Cutler, Member of the Board of Supervisors of Floyd County
Found Dead.
Resident of Nora Springs
Some Think Cause of Death was Apoplexy, Others Fear Foul Play.
Charles City was considerably worked up last Sunday over the
finding of the body of J. G. Cutler, a member of the Floyd County
board of supervisors and a resident of Nora Springs, at the
Milwaukee depot in that city early Sunday morning.
Mr. Cutler had been in attendance at a meeting of the board on
Saturday and had started for the depot to take the train home,
being seen last by the county auditor at about 5:30. Later in the
evening he was discovered in the back yard of a man living near
the depot and the man concluded that was only a drunk. Learning
that the supposed drunk wanted to go to Nora Springs he was
assisted to the depot and remained there without further
attention until about 10:30 when the night operator was attracted
by hearing him fall
upon the floor. The operator placed him back on the bench, but an
hour later finding him again on the floor concluded that there
might be something the matter and summoned medical aid. It was
too late and the unfortunate man soon expired.
The coroners inquest found that the man had died from causes to
them unknown. Some think that he had been hit on the head and
robbed, but his family do not think so.
The deceased was a prominent business man of Nora Springs,
connnected with one of the banks at that place and also an
offical of the bank at Rudd of which R. F. Dorow is cashier.
Mr. Lamberson has known the deceased for a good many years and he
was a man of strict morality and business integrity and strickly
temperate, so the people who thought him intoxicated must have
been mistaken.
[transcribed by M.O., January 2006]