Show ROBES ACTS OF A GENERAL i f J 1 II 1 fm EJ E J L 1 I AED TO MSS KOOS 1 r i CORONERS CORONER'S JURY HEARS f fI I I NURSE DEAD BEFORE BODY PUT INTO lAKE Investigation Shows Death IDeath Caused by y Strangulation tr ng l ti tion n Resulting From Drawn I Around Throat Tightly t I 4 Miss Frances Korous whose body W was Avas S found in jn Liberty I 1 p park par lalie Saturday afternoon n was was' th the vict of a premeditated dit ith ed eel murder in hi which ii li h another wo woman Ul played Jl a a aarti alk is js th theory the JJ ny advanced as of significant ts r It vis il definitely established at the coroners coroner's s inquest beI ef t. t tJ Jude ud e William R Reer toda tod today th that t Miss Ko Korous O could not p s t iJ have t l S 'S d t she Ji de dead d 1 for forR fora a consider considerable l a able ble time before re her body was placed in iii the lake Testimony at t the h hearing ling also showed shoed almost beyond I a possible d b tl t. t death drath t had 1 been h c caused C by strangulation n It was the thc general ral opinion of pr expert rt witnesses s es that she had been o dc death th b by the rag fag Wj hick was was found knotted about her neck k It 15 is that Ul the theory of another w woman mall having becu i in involved in iii the tho murder is established hed The Tho rag found about the of oi the tho dead nurse was o of a fabric not found among the c effects of f Miss Mis Korous Apparently it was I a part of a woman woman woman's under undergarment r. r garment of a light mixed cotton an and wool texture The Th rag was about two two wo feet square and could have been torn lorn from the front panel of a woma womans woman's s 's underskirt Miss Korous wOre undergarments of a different texture These had not been dis lis- the examination showed shoe I I Neither her relatives nor or associates s at atI at atthe atthe I the T Y W. W C C. C A A. where v Miss Korous made her home have f found nd anything I among her effects of t the same nia ma material as the S r rig rag g I The material of ot which the supposed j death band around ht her n neck ck was wu made cannot be purchased by the yard it is said It Is s believed t to tn b bp- bp bpI marketed only in light weight under under- I I I garments v DEEPENS MYSTERY y 7 I However the theory that thata a u Woman was involved In the crime has haa notI not not- I shed even a aray ray ray of light on a pos pos- I sible motive The condition o of Ml Ie e I body and the belief bellet of examining I ph physicians that it tt was dead ead for tor eon canS I time timo before being placed Iced Inthe in ini I i the lake 1 I ave Ve ke only served to deepen i the mystery surrounding her death i Dr pr L. L J. J Paul assistant county count i phY physician and Dr Or Ray T T. Woolsey I assistant city y physician who c nd cI c- c I ed the autopsy testified at the j in InI in inquest In- In quest that death in Jn their opinion I had not been caused b by drowning drowning- I The They als also testified that It would have been Impossible for Miss Korous to have committed suicide 1 f i KILLED WHILE SEATED The testimony of the two physicians brought out the fact that the bod had become stiffened In a sitting posture posture- before being placed in the pie wat water l' l This officers say 1 j proof ot of the tho theory that Miss Miss' Korous 4 was vas as strangled while seated in a a. chai or a automobIle t t The action of the tho water the doctor doctors said ald could not have changed tho the posture of the body once it had Itt The They also testified t. t poison of any n kind kiad had been s slowed s' s 1 lowed Miss Korous would h h 1 breathed sufficiently after ing in the vater water to fill her herThe s. The post mortem examination gho showed c l that her J lungs were empty t BLOOD ON BRIDGE k kA A A. slight abrasion on n the tip of or tl vz t nose Nh h h d ci caused that part of r face to decompose more rapidly tJ other parts The two ph physicians eSlit jd hr the nasal m le was not broken ri and rd that from their examination bruise was not sufficient to hay hap caused unconsciousness i Just before adjournment of Ct of t tr inquest t hearing hearing- Sidney R. R bourne superintendent of of f Uh r ft park u stifled that two working at he park on the Ve hC day M Korous is believed to have ha t b bt 1 murdered discovered ered a spot of or blo 1 on a bridge r Thc ma ine w were re J J. Roberts en 1 yr- yr nest They were engaged In repairing a bridge about seventy seventy-flye e feet from flom the spot pot where the h lUy UY wa wn found floating in ih the lal lake ako je- je Ve- Ve conling cording to tn their story stor t d' d Burton Durton if he karl had cut his finger vl when n L a 4 spot sOot f b cod was found o-i o 01 t the c Burton remarked that he bad Continued on page pase 2 r t to |