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Show BROTHER8 MIS8ING; DODY OF ONE FOUND Welaka, Fin,, Fob. 7. The body of Alonzo O. Gardner of Baltimore was found today ln a donse palmetto thlikct along the banks ot Raft creek near Georgetown, Fla. Death har been caused by a Bhot ln tho back of tho head. Gardner and his brother, Hor-aco Hor-aco of Springfield, Mass., have been missing for three weeks. No trace ot Horace Gardner has been round, but tho authorities be-llev be-llev he, too, is dead. It Is believed both men wero killed for the purpose ot rolitory. Tho pockets of the brother found today had been turned wrong1 side out. Both are said to have carried considerable money. Search for the men 'was begun immediately im-mediately a(tor tC negro pilot return'1 ed here atone January 22 with a yacht the brothers had engaged for use on a hunting trip up the Ock-lawaha Ock-lawaha river. The necrm aisatDcar- ed Boon aferward and efforts to find him have failed. Charred Camp equipment owned by the Gardners was found about a week ago near the place whoro the body was located. This strengthened a theory irat tho two men had been murdered. Tho body recovered was found by Captain Hlscock ot a river mall boat. Tho dead man's hand gripped a small caliber rlllo, with whleh ho presumably had been shooting shoot-ing game. |