Show T ift R 1 u 1 I 1 I 1 BATTLE OUGHT I 1 N THE ARK POLICE FORCE HAVE A MURDER MYSTERY letter found may give a clue to the perpetrator of the murderous deed chicago jan 5 half stunned by a glancing blow from a black jack adolph johnson a and cheese peddler struggled in the blackness of an all unlighted barn last night with a desperate highway highwayman mati grasping striking reaching for a weapon only to succumb finally to the murderous attack which left him bleeding to death from fifteen different stab wounds about the neck and head the police pollee department detailed every po possible elble man to til tho 0 case summoned every possible witness for a close examination arrested four men of hobo characteristics who were loitering in the neighborhood hood but thus far they have failed to find the murderer the ne police for several hours were convinced that the theory ot of robbery was the only one fitting tho the evidence the pe theory was dropped because of the finding of 39 in the burul mans pockets and because of tho the unusual vicious no nos of the attack A circumstance that strengthened their belief that there was another motive than that of was the discovery in hia his trunk of a letter written on an now new theater stationery and signed rose tho the writer johnson for having fail fall aed ed to keep an engagement with her and ani appointing another meeting at the same place thursday it was dated nov IP 1 with this as a possible clew tho the police became convinced that tho the murder was act of jealousy ous on the part of another admirer oti of roae |