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Show Jll.rl.ni.ll.rs Horn Wuiiisn In Death. Horribly burned and dying In Intense agony waa the falo ot Mrs. W. C Cae. on, wife of a Cowley county, Kansas, farmer, because her husband rcfuyd to deposit 83,000 lu a place named by unknown blackmailer. Mr. Carlson, received an anonymous nolo requesting him In bury 3500 at the fool ot a certain telephone pole under penalty ot having hi house burned, The suggestion waa Ignored. Ono week later another anonymous nolo wa received, re-ceived, stating that it 33,000 wa not deposited within a week hi bouse would bo burued and ho would b killed. No attention wa paid to the second communication, nnd on Haturday night while Mr, Carlton wa en route to Med-ford Med-ford for mall the home wa II red. Mr. Carlson was found about ten feet from the mine by Mra. Dunn, n neighbor, horribly burned und Insensible. She waa taken home by Mr. Dunn, where the milled enough betoro dying Hunday Hun-day to relate her knowledge of the transaction. She rushes! outside when alio discovered discov-ered the (Ire, but remembered some valuable paper and n treasured old violin, aud tried to save them. From that moment her mind wa a blank until sho awoko In tha homo of Mr, Dunn. |