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Show A COWARDLY Ml KDKK. A Scrap or paper Leads to the Murderer. Mur-derer. Chicago, April 21. On September 18, Farmer Reich of Calumet, while looking for wild grapes in a lonely wood south of Lake Calumet, stumbled over the dead body of a man who had been shot twice in tho body and once in tho head. His faco was battered out of shape, and everythingapparcntly which could possibly lead to the identity of the body taken from it. But the murderer overlooked a little scrap of paper bearing the address of a women iu Mauslield, Ohio, and two days later W. E. l'urdy was arrested in that town for murder, aud the dead man was identi tied as Samuel Kcinuiger, of Johnstown, Johns-town, Pa. l'urdy is now on trial before Judge (Srinnell. The evidence against him is purely circumstantial, l'urdy and Beu-niger, Beu-niger, both young men, met iu Mauslield Maus-lield about tho last of August. They mado tho acquantaitee of Kilith Kyrcr, and it was her naiuu written ou an old euvelopo which 'furnished tho first clue to tho identity of the deail man. Tho two men hail left together for Chicago early in September, and Turdy had returned to Mauslield alouo tho day after the body was found, lie was arrested aud tho evidence against him piled up rapidly. rap-idly. He was wearing a ring Rcnuiger had worn while in Mauslield, but claimed ho hail bought it of him, aud denied having auythiug else of his. In his trunk, however, were found various articles of clothing cloth-ing and a watch aud chain which had belonged to Ronniger, and on the latter was a drop of blood, ft was learned that iu Chicago they had stopped at the Wiley house, UIH) State street, aud twice wcut hunting, tho second timo on Monday, Sept., 14. L'urdy roturnod alouo that day and left the next morning, telling the proprietor that Kenninger had gone to St. Elmo. Ills., to visit a brother. Yesterday noon eight witnesses arrived from Mauslield. The mother and a younger brother of tho dead man arrived at the same time from Johnstown, l'a.. Rob- bery was tho motive of tho murder, which was, beyond doubt, premeditated. premedi-tated. Reuninger was known to have about $200 when he came to Chicago. |