Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1915-06-27 | Page 7 | Six Bodies Dug up in Excavating

J I Six Bodies Dug Dag Up in Excavating Supposed to Be Remains of Farm Hands Killed by Insane Farmer i N. N D D. June 26 Work rork Work Workmen N NIAGARA men excavating under the house occupied until a few years ear ago by Eugene Butler who died In 1913 Inthe Inthe in inthe the state hospital for Cor Insane unearthed the remains of ot six men believed by bythe bytho bytho tho the authorities to have been murdered b by Butler while employed by him as ns farm han hands The skull of each had been crushed Butler became violently violent violent- ly h insane nine years e ago but had laad never been suspected o of the crimes disclosed tol toda today ay Before ho was taken in char charge e b by bythe bythe the th state authorities in 1906 Butler Dutler who was a prosperous farmer and un unmarried tin un- married was kno known n to be bo mentally deranged and it was wan during this period of or four or five rive years cars that he heI heIs hela I la Is believed to have lone done away with the men There is no cle clew to the Identity of tho ho victims who ho had been burled side by side as lS only the skeletons remain Butler came to this Grand Forks county count In from Buffalo N. N Y