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Show H ' j kjj INSANE DRUG CLERK B ' li MURDERS A WOMAN ! Bx j i Body Found Face Downward On a Hmi I 'j Cinder Pile In Cellar of 1 11 Pittsburg Pharmacy ' i I Bfli I BB Pittsburg, Nuv. IT The body of BH i -Mrs. Mayiue Cirolneiscn aged 3.", the B j I j nlfo of Oliver Grolnelsen, a West End BH I drug clerk, was found Into today lny- BH j tug face downward on a cinder pile BH ' , In the cellar of C. A. Glgeu's phar- K ' j i macy, located on the south sldo of Hl j, the city. Practically nude, tlio body H j ' was scratched and bruised. Tlio wo- ; ' j , j man's left cyo was discolored anil hor i ' j balr knotted and unkempt. Michael j , I I ! L. Sweeney, a drug cleru, emp'oyed B (ij '" "l0 C!lvel13 pharmacy, was arrest- B i i I H pel In the store a fow minutes nfter BBfl 'i ' M llio woman's body was found. Swcc- BBflj v j ' I l uc' ns In a hlgh'y nerom coii'll- BBfl ' i cn nn(1 t0,(1 n ll3connectcd story BBfl li of how the woman reached tlio ecl- H! !' l V lar. Ho Hiilil Mrs. Grelnclsen walked BBfl, ' 'H Into the Glvcns pharmacy about S BBB .1 . ' B o'clock last night, almost nudo and BBS I J that ho and Tom llawklus or Harklns 1 picked her up and carried her Into tlio cellar. Clerk Locked Up Mumbling Incoherently, Sweeney was locked In a police station cell tonight, to-night, and will bo turned over to the coroner tomorrow. Search Is being made for tlio Tom mentioned by Sweeney. Tlio authorities doubt tlio story told by Sweeney as to Mrs. Grelnots'en's appearance at Glvens pharmacy, claim Ing It Impossible for a woman, nl-miit nl-miit nudo to walk through n number num-ber of streets early Sunday ovimlng without detection. Tho pollco found tho body dressed In n short dressing sack, a whlto undershirt, two stockings stock-ings and ono shoo. Tho shoo appeared appear-ed to bo that of n man. Thrown over tho body was a ragged dark capo. A short skirt had been cut down tho back. Illood had been (lowing from tho woman's mouth and tho body was lacerated from tho cinders. Discovered By Chance " Tho body was discovered In the cellar through a remark alleged to liavo been mtido by Sweeney to a neighbor "that a woman was In tho cellar." Tho pollco were notified. As tho body was being carried to a morgue ambulajico Swoeneys nervouB condition attracted tho attention of Captain of Pollco Henry J. Alt. Upon bolng questioned Sweeney told who tho woman was. "She caino In hero about 8 o'clock last night," ho said, "without any clothes on. She mado a noise, and Tom and I carried her down to the cellar." Sweeney then refused to tajk further, fur-ther, but mumbled whllo tho police questioned him. |