Show MURDERED AND CREMATED wealthy farmer faim er killed by his sons then alieu burned ill one of the most atrocious crimes ever committed in illinois was perpetrated in lindoll lindell township thia county last thursday evening for cold blooded brutality it is doubtful if it has any equal mr air E al a prominent and wealthy farmer laveing about two niles miles west from the village of lyndon drove to the city thursday afternoon and after attending to some business started for home arriving there cheri about 6 his two sons john and ernest were engaged at work around the barn when their father returned but no words were exchanged between them mr his horse and put him in the stable when he had his horse someone stopped stepped up behind him and shot him through the hoad head his body was then placed in a cart and wheeled about a hundred rods to a straw stack carried on top and then the straw was sot set on fire A daughter of the murdered man was the first to discover the fire and gave the alarm and with the sons rode to the stack but mede no effort to quench the flames the absence of mr air did not seem to disturb his two sons daughter and daughter inlaw in law and it was warnot not until a neighbor had come in aud and insisted on a search being made that ono one was instituted choh the ashes of the stack was eya examined mined portions of the bones was discovered clues subsequently found have led to tho arrest of the two sons john and ernest but they deny all knowledge of tho affair rocky mountain news |