Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-02-26 | Page 10 | Woman Beaten to Death at Aurora

WOMAN BEATEN TO DEATH AT AURORA Third 'Crime of the Same Sort in the Illinois Town Within a Year. AURORA, 111., Feb. 25. A young woman wom-an was beaten to death here ttxiight. It is the third case of the sort within a year. Emma Peterson was found unconscious on the sidewalk shortly before midnight, her skull fracturtd and her jaw broken. She died In tlip ambulance while being taken to a hospital. The body was found by two girls on thptr way home. It was lii the residence j district, only a block from the homo of A. J. Hopkins, former U!lltd States senator. sena-tor. Xo weapon v as lour.d. The first of the trio r.f tragedies was. the death of Theresa Hollander, who was founa in Ft. Xlchohis cemetery last February. Feb-ruary. Her erstwhile- sweetheart. Tony Petras, was charged with the municr. but was acquitted. A month or so later Jennie Miller, an eld'-r!y member of one of the best-known families In the city, w.i beaten to d-ath with a !k-;ivy wrench while on her way homo from a motion i picture show. The woman l;1ilr-d tonight was about 2J ears old. !.e liwj at the homr of .Tohn Dooiing. a retired saloonkeeper, less than a block from wher- the body wr;s found.