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Show o 1 111) IP Child Had Been Murdered Mur-dered and Body Covered Cov-ered With Quicklime Grand Island. Neb., Feb. 8. Tho dead body of little Goldio Williams, 10 years old, was found at noon today in a vacant bouse in the northeast .partoJ.O)VTi. It was coveredwith quicklime, "a" quantity' of which was in the house and further hidden by a door which had been thrown over it The authorities say they do not ex- (Continued on Page Eight.) DEAD BODY IS FOUND (Continued from Page One.) pect to prevent a lynching should the assailant be captured. The little girl disappeared Tuesday Tues-day evening in company with a man about 40 years old, a stranger hore. When hor body was found It was badly bad-ly mutilated. Her captor had caused hor death by blows from his fists, her faco showing the marks of a beating. The body was discovered by searchers. search-ers. Tho house in which It was found was not searched yesterday, because It was newly completed and no one thought of the little girl being hidden hid-den thero. Tho search was transferred from ono for the girl and her captor, to one for tho captor alone, but It has not abated In thoroughness or zeal. Yesterday tho town was canvassed from house to house , today posses I are making a hunt through 'the sur- I rounding country looking In every I farm house and the outbuildings. All day yeotorday and last night, from the" time the flrebell brought out tho citizens to join In the hunt, flvo hundred persons have been patrolling patrol-ling tho vicinity. It is believed to bo certain a lynching lynch-ing will follow if tho murderer Is caught. |