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Show REMAINS SCATTERED OVER COUNTRY Illinois Man Makes Death Sure by Touching Off Ten Pounds of Dynamite. DECATUR, 111., Feb. li-Investigation by Coroner Dawson, into the death of George 13. Rue shows that it was suicide and that ho used ten pounds of dynatllte to blow himself out of the world. His two f pet. and a lot of fragments of flesh could be picked up, and these were scattered scat-tered over an acre. Thousands of small particle of flesh were found everywhere in the tops of trees. . Coroner Dawson put in two hours try-s ing to gather up enough of the body to hol1 an inquest on and bury. The suicide took place Mondav morning, and peonle for miles around heard the noise of the t-xplosion. The cause was not known until un-til fragments of the body were found late Tuesday night. Even then it was thought it might have been an accident. Ill health was the supposed cause. |