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Show Jy iolra " DISSECTED BROTHER Alleged Slayer in Jail to Save Him From Villagers Vil-lagers Wrath. RICHMOND. Va., Oct. 20 Oj-. Asa "r. ! Chamberlain, the sixty-three-year-old re- j lired physician held In jail here for safe-; keeping- while Goochland county author!-! i res charge him with the murder of his ; sixl-five-year-old bi other,' Judge Albert; P. Chamberlain, seemed to bo in a daze ; 10033- and refused to talk about the fliarffe a;ainst him other than to reiterate; ids innocence. i Cominc from Iowa three years a:?o, the ('ha mberiains settled on a farm in the remote highlands noith of the James river. Dr. Chamberlain came from Web- : titer, la., and Judge Chamberlain from Den Moines. The flndintr of Albert Chamberlain's body, horribly mutilated, showing' that he probably had been attacked with a siiclt, then choked to death and his body dissected, so aroused the Virginians that '. XJr. Chamberlain was not considered safe vs-Oooch!ud county jail and was brought -jcre. r a quarrel over $1200. which Dr. Chamberlain Cham-berlain owed his brother for a division of their property, the authorities Bay, was the cause of the murder. A dog pawing in the ground uncovered the gruesome evidence which disclosed It. Searchers were attracted to the burial plat-e by the dog' a si range actions, and when one thro Ft a stick into the earth a nauseating odor become perceptible. A fimali hit of cloth was observed clinging ro the stick. The party unearthed the torso of a human being. Thereupon the j'a rmers searched the Chamberlain farm. Nothing: finally was left, but the fenre posts and then each of these was pulled up. In the first hole the head, an arm, heart and liver were found, fn the other holes another arm or limb or other sec- ; rlons of the body were recovered. The whole body In pieces was eventually found. I |