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Show CREMATED HIS WIFE AFTER MURDERING HER DES MOINES. In., April 23. Charles W. Graves furniture dealer, charged, with murdering his wife and burning tho body, was found guilty todoy, the jury recommending life Imprisonment. Graves Is said to have choked his wife to death In a fit of rage and then to have saturated the bodj' with kerosene, kero-sene, setting It on fiie. A daughter, Winnie Reader, a member of the Grau Opera company, arrived at home to spend the holidays three dnys after Uie crime was committed. She burled her mother, accused her stepfather step-father of the crlmo and secured his conviction. |