The Sioux City Journal
Wednesday, May 14, 1924
DROWNED MAN NOT IDENTIFIED.
Relatives Elmer Smith Say Body at Ida Grove Not His.
(Special Dispatch to the Journal)
LeMars, Ia., May 13.—A. F. Smith, uncle of Elmer Smith, makes the claim that the man whose body was found in the river at Ida Grove was not Elmer Smith at all. He says Smith was considerably younger and larger than the man found at Ida Grove.
Oscar Smith of Merrill, cousin of Elmer Smith, also claims that the body is that of a stranger. Ida county will bury the unknown man, the Smith family at Nickerson, Neb., having refused to accept it.
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