Show R R alu curave grave of chicago is r burned to death UA A I 1 special Specia lJ 11 ind aug 25 the tit Y mic culmination of theas ibe career of 0 a poor widows defrauder de frander come to light today to day on the banks of the wabash river eight miles korthof north of here a small one room log cabin that had been ed for everl several year years about forty yards from the banks of the river was burned to the ground about midnight sunday light night and monday morning jon athan ward and john A winter winters two farmers fan ners in looking over the ruins were glicr horrified iffet to il scover the remains of a it human icing being among the bones were found 1 i il quarter warter of a dollar on which was a knight of PlIt hlas emblem with the ascription inscription B R Lus grava chicago III 11 from which were r speeded ft two office keye keys the tito bra s portion of a i pocketbook was also found the ghastly find was brought 24 to W this city and turned tamed over river to the police later 1 6 01 chaile leq ht 11 ct Wiy Trout a local ocal real estate dealer who threw light upon the mystery B tl 71 musgrave a young englishman about thirty two years old was a prominent real estate agent here two year yeam ago when the discovery of several crooked real estate transactions and to fo geries by one of w which a it widow mra mrs dr ball since deceased was swindled out of her cash led to hie his flight to escape arrest he ile fled to england taking his mother and bister sister I 1 with him but returned to this country and beaming bolder as time went on located at chicago a year ago and of late had been employed by the real estate A firm r of if diax co trouts theory Is that the hay and straw which were strewn all around the log cabin canet fire are from either the open fire place or the benzine burner and that as musgrave Ius grave slept in the loft he was suffocated before ho he was alura anare there was a a fire em he smuts the idea of suicide As a do the other visitor visitors to the amet meeting place some persons advance e the theory that this Is 1 a desperate ruse of angrave to destroy his hl idez identity aty by either murdering some person or a corpse from a gm gac e yard but the best opinion fro from the evidence Is that this slack swindler met this dreadful drtad tol fate at the hands of providence at the very moment he w was fooling the by a secret visit here Mus gravee mother other ro lits am bush musgrave Mus gravs lives at chicago altu itt her and he 11 ba a number of k es all pam prom anent neot people living in thi la 17 I 1 r fe A i |