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Iowa News from across the
Country
- 1867 -
Alton Telegraph
Alton, Illinois
December 27, 1867
From Iowa.
Des Moines, Dec. 24 -- A man named McCormick was brought here
yesterday, charged with the murder of an old man named James, in
Humboldt county. Last Wednesday James had been to Fort Dodge and
McCormick, learing that he had some $800 with him, obtained the
privilege of riding in his wagon, and when
near Dacotah City beat out the old man's brains, robbed the body
and started east. The body was found soon afterward, and the
murderer arrested on the same evening.
[transcriber: S.F., Nov. 2003]