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Show HOLD SERVICE FOR VICTIM OF ROBBER Edgar P. Sears Is Laid at Best; Was Murdered by Highway-rnan. Highway-rnan. Stanley W. Warie of this city returned yesterday from Pine Bluff, Ark., where lie wfnt to bury the body of his father-in-law. Edgar P. Sea ra. who was killed Iher. by a highwayman on tin: night of November 2o. The theory of the police is that Mr. Sears was on his way to the postoffk-e to mall a letter to his wife that was later found beside the body and w;i.s shot whMi he offered resistance upon up-on be in a: lie Id up. J is body was found next morn ins with t he pockets of the clothing turned inside out. his vuitch gone and cards from his wallet together with letters scattered upon tho ground for a distance of fifty feet. The assassin had ia id his revolver upon ho dead man's breast to mislead the, police to a conclusion con-clusion of suMde, but all other evidence was overwhelmingly against such a possibility. pos-sibility. The coroner's jury returned a verdict of murder with robbery as the motive. The body was buried by the Woodmen of the World in tbe Bell wood nemetery at Pine Bluff. Mr. Sears was In the real estate business in Halt Lake for twenty-seven twenty-seven years. In addition to his widow he is survived by two daughters. They are Mrs. Stanlev W, Wade and Mrs. Alfred T. Egan bath of this city. |