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Show INDIANA TOWNS PUZZLED OVER STRANGE DEATH WARSAW, Ind. March 15. a coroner's Inquest was scheduled sched-uled to be opened a Bourbon. Ind . toda In an effort to solve the mystery surrounding the strange case of a youth, apparently appar-ently about 20 years old who was found dead at a railroad crossing near here Saturday night. Arrests would follow the Inquest. Coroner N B. Aspinwall predicted. predict-ed. 1 1 was at first believed tho young man had been struck by a train, but investigation by the authorities au-thorities Is said to have led to the belief that he had been beaten to death in a shack nearby. Several hours after Ihe body wns found. Fred Decker, a farmer. Identified the bods as that of his brother. Virgil, aged 20 He nsl;-ed nsl;-ed that be might bury the body Immediately but gjiermission was refused. ..ast night John Lovett, of Elk-I Elk-I hart. Identified the bd as that of his son. Leroy. age 19. It was also brought out that Virgil Decker was last seen In the coni-! coni-! panv of Leroy Lovett. ' The veiling men were Said to, be '.'doubles" In appearance. Neither was seen since ihu rag- A buggy vras smashed by a lrcigni train ai VIZ where the body was found una It was at first supposed the slain yOUtH was a train victim. But traLnmcn declared tho buggy was standing on the tracks and no horse was hitched to it The authorities followed buggy tracks to a shack on Fred Decker's Deck-er's farm. Virgil Decker was employed by his brother. oo |