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Show Jensen Murder Yet a Mystery Numerous theories that came up following the murder of Carl Jensen, 55-year-old sheepherder, whose body was found in the state canal south of Clarion on the night of July 21, have been followed by officers and thus far have proven futile, as none has developed anything that would lead to a real clue. The three sons, who left on the night the murder was supposed suppos-ed to have been committed, have been before the officers, and each was closely questioned with the result that satisfactory alibis were furnished. furnish-ed. The wife of the murdered man was also closely questioned, but nothing that would lead to a clue was divulged. The hat . worn by Jensen, which proved a perplexing problem to the officers, has been found at the end of the canal, several miles north from where the dead body of Jensen was found. It was picked up by a farmer in that vicinity and later positively identified as that worn by Jensen before be-fore he was brutally murdered. Several Sev-eral trips to the scene of the murder and the surrounding territory has ns yet revealed nothing that would lead the officers to a plausible clue. After Af-ter the murder, it is said, the hundreds of sheep under the care of Jensen were scattered and it might be that any evidence of a struggle or any tracks leading to the point of the canal where the body was found would be obliterated. Suspicion for a while directed to a certain person, who was reported to have been seen in the vicinity at about the time of the murder, mur-der, but this has been run down and no clue from this theory has been established. Thus far the case is proving a vexing vex-ing problem with the officers and unless un-less something comes up later the murder may remain an unsolved mystery. |