Show I ILLINOIS PRIEST MAY v I BE Ml or SlAIN 01 1 LETTER CL ClAIMS I Description of Man Under Under Under Un Un- der Surveillance Tallies With That of Priest Murderer Murderer Mur Mur- MurI I derer at Lead S. S Dakota VIRDEN Ill March 15 By A A. P. P Several new developments ln the case of Father John A. A pastor of the Sacred Heart Catholic I church here who disappeared a week and a half halt ago were an announced announced announced an- an I today by George Miller deputy sheriff of ot Macoupin county Mrs Johanna mother of the missing rector said she had re receIved received received re- re a a. letter from a woman In Dubuque Ia la who declared that her brother the Rev Kev Father Arthur B B. B a a. priest at Lead S. S D. D had been slain by a man whose de descrIption description description de- de she supplied Deputy Sheriff Miller declared the description of ot this alleged allegE slayer of Father Belknap corresponds with that of ot a man who Is Js being kept un under un- un der surveillance In a town near here Adolph of ot Chicago brother of ot the missing rector as asserted asserted as- as I as-I that a a. man who did not give his name telephoned that the missing miss miss- missing ing clergyman was seen with miss miss-I two men who appeared to be leading him in Collinsville Ill near St. St i Louis several nights night ago The men were reported to Save boarded a trolley car for St. St Louis of ot the country between here and St. St I Louis was continued tOda today SO DAKOTA SUSPECT HAS VISITED VIRDEN DUBUQUE ia la March 15 The 15 The mysterious disappearance of Father John A. A of ot Virden Ill under under un un- I I der circumstances that lead the au authorities authorities au- au there and and at St. St Louis to believe that Father was murdered has revived hopes of Dubuque relatives of ot the late lato Father Fath Fath- er A. A 13 B. B Belknap of ot Lead S S. S D. D who was murdered October 28 20 1921 at Lead that the slayer may be apprehended In the papers of Andrew Rolando who is suspected of ot having killed Father Belknap are some letters from a a. girl named Kolm or Colm at Virden with whom he corre corre- There also is a notebook in which entries were made that Indicated he had visited Virden several several sev seY- era eral I times The Tho papers are in the hands of or orthe the sheriff at Lead Rolando was known to be antagonistic to the Catholic church These facts led Mrs MIs John E. E Wagner Vagner of Dubuque sister Bister of ot Father Belknap to write a a. letter to Mrs Johanna mother of ot the missing priest t In Inclosing Inclosing inclosing In- In closing a description of Rolando who disappeared from Lead the morning Father Belknap was killed A countrywide search was made for him without success I |