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Show Ray Pf an schmidt Believed Be-lieved to Have Killed Parents and Sister Quiucy, 111 , Oct 7. Ray pran-schmldt pran-schmldt was arrested toda for murder mur-der In connection with "the Pfan-schmldt Pfan-schmldt quadruple murder case The formal charge is that of the murder of Blanche Pfanschmidt, sister of the accused man Young Pfanschmldl Is 23 years old. The arrest of youns Pfanschmidt was the direct result of the finding today to-day of a bloodstained khaki suit near a railroad construction camp where he was uinployed The suit found under un outbuilding was similar to one generally gen-erally wjorn by the young man. Iast Monday hloodbounds followed Pfan-achmidt's Pfan-achmidt's buggy rrom the scene of the murder to the construction camp. On the morning or Sunday, September Septem-ber 29. the bodleB or Churles A Pfanschmidt. Pfan-schmidt. Mrs. Mathilda Pfanschmidt. their daughter. Blanche, and Emma Kacmpen. were found In the ruins of' the burned Pfanschmidt home south-1 nst of Quincy The condition of the bodies jSrovcd conclusively that the four persons had been murdered. j Rnv Pfanschmidt was the only surviving sur-viving member of the family- The' Pfanscbniidts were well insured and the estate is estimated at $50,000. |