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Show TOO BEEP FOR WORDS- "Little Russian comment" (news item), but a lot of thinking. crime has caused great excitement and indignation among the farmers of the American bottoms, where it occurred. oc-curred. ' One of the victims. Mrs. Annie Green, a colored woman, aged 25, was scratches. Her clothing was badly torn. Miss Grimes vigorously defended herself with a riding whip, and finally pulled her horse away from the hungry cub. The animal was about the size of a hog and had evidently been weaned by the' mother cougar. clubbed about the head, her' skull fractured and left arm broken. Just before relapsing into unconsciousness she told of the assault, and described a light yellow negro, aged 25 years, as her assailant. She was evidently the first victim of the fiend, who later proceeded to the home of John Bruno, a well-to-do farmer living between East St. Louis and Belleville, and committed the second crime. |