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Show WOMAN IS MURDERED. California Ranch Woman Murdered and Robbed Body Was Found Burled in Sand by the Son. Lancaster, Cal. In a shallow grave sunk In the sand of her front yard, a pet dog uncovered Sunday tho body of Mrs. Frieda Schultz Costlne, a wealthy ranch owner. Every Indication points to murder with robbery as tho motive, and telegrams tele-grams havo been sent to all Beaports and border cities between Galveston and San Francisco to arrest tho woman's wom-an's brothor-in-law, Otto Schultz; who left hero Saturday, after telling Station Sta-tion Agent Stoughton of tho Southern Pacific that ho was bound for Germany. Ger-many. Mrs. Castlne was last seen Friday, when she camo hero from her rancb, four mllcR east, to receive a remittance remit-tance of $C,000 from relatives In San Francisco. Tho Investigations of officers from tho sheriff's office in Los Angoles, who arrived hero Sunday afternoon, tend to show tho woman was murdered as she drove Into her yard and that she was thrown into tho shallow hole yet alive. An examination by au autopsy surgeon sur-geon disclosed tho prcsenco of sand In tho lungs and tho bronchial tubes, drawn there by tho victim's dying gasps. Otto Shultz, tho woman's brother-in-law, who camo boro recently to take charge of tho ranch, was also missing, and on being apprised of tho search, Mr. Stoughton recalled tho fact that Schultz had purchased a ticket for Los Angeles, and bad said that he was on his wny back to Germany, where both the Schultz nnd Castino families aro snld to bo well connected. |