Inter-Mountain Farmer | 1902-08-19 | Page 2 | Found Grave Empty

FOUND GRAVE EMPTY. Instead of Collin Containing; Corpse ri Two-Pound Lump of Ice Was Found. Outhrle Okli , Aug 17 A grave near Orlando, a town a short distance from Outhrle, In which C W -Morris, the Mnellsou (Kan ) man who wns reported list week to have been killed, vv as opened to liy in the presence of f,no persons mid found lo be empty. Prlcnds of Morris, who believed that he hid been murdered, mur-dered, hid requested lhe authorities to exhume the body. Telegiams ot Inquiry In-quiry have heen received from Morris's wife mid fiom lnsuiaiice orders lu Mnd-laon, Mnd-laon, of which he wns a member. Morris appeared here n week ago In company with n mm who gave Ms name as Cox and who represented himself him-self to bo a loan agent. On Mond ly Cox reported that Morris had been killed In a lunnwuy ncrldrnl The man purehnsed a lot In a county cenietery nenr Orlindo nnd bought n collln, which he burled with the assistance of a colored col-ored man The collln today contnlned n cako of Ice weighing nbnut two pounds P,vl-elentlv P,vl-elentlv It bml been filled with Ice when It wns burled The police have no clue to the whereabouts of either man A dispatch from Chandler, Okl.i , says a man giving his nunc ns John Cox wns arie sted there today for miking a gun liny He his been held for Investigation Investi-gation nt the icqucst of the Guthrie authniitlcs