Salt Lake Telegram | 1929-03-31 | Page 29 | Montana Grocer Believed Slain

MONTANA GROCER BELIEVED S SLAIN AI BILLINGS Mont March 30 O I U United lIte-d lIte Report Press of the finding findIng find find- Ing of bloodstains and a a paIr o of spectacles last December 21 on the railing bf a bridge crossing the theY Y Yellowstone rIver led police to beli be- be li Ji ye ve that Edward Kortzeborn 71 local grocer wa was murdered on the brIdge Sand and thrOwn wn over the railing IntO the river The mans man's body WaE wa found on a sand bar in the river near here a w week ek ago ago Discovery the bloodstains and spectacles was made made-by by R. R J. J J Cruse another Billings grocer groer the after af- af ter disappeared and was reported to county officers Police Police Po- Po lice however had rec received Ived no report report re- re port port of f Kortzeborn's disappearance and paid little attention to Cruses Cruse's discovery The murdered man collected several several sev- sev eral thousand dollars in mortgages a few days before he disappeared and police believed robbery was tas the motive of the murderers Clues have failed to reveal any d definite leads which may be followed by police In theIr attempts to solve the mystery