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Show STORY LEADS POUCE TO 0PE1 GRAVES Of TWO Father Believed Spirit of Dead Called Souls of Living. WINONA. .Minn, Jan. I. The graves of Miss Frances Liloch and her brother. Joseph, will bo re-opened here today, it was announced by the police, to determine, whether or not j the stor told by their father. Thomas Bloch, in explanation of his action in opening the graves last week. Is trulh- ful. According to Bloch'a story, four of ih's sons died following hLs daughter's death five years ago. and a fifth son I recently became 111. Desperate, he act-jed act-jed on tho oft-repeated suggestion of iHuporstltious friends, he said who had ,told him that the spirit of the first id a family to i i-- "calls" the spirits of other members of the family, 1 1 1 friends told him he nssfrted. that the only a to prevent similar mlsfor-jtune mlsfor-jtune to other members of the family' Iwas to disinter the body of his daugh-l ter, decapitate It and place the Head at the foot of tho coffin. According-I jlv he, with a friend, dug up the cof-1 i fin containing the body, but found I that Only a skeleton remained. Not ' disturbing it, ho replaced the coffin 'in the ground', he said. He then dug lup the coffin containing the body of a .son but it. too, bore nothing but a I Skeleton, he said, and he also re-Ipiaced re-Ipiaced it, undisturbed Local embalmera told the police that It was unusual for bodies to de-Icompose de-Icompose no completely us to leave noihln" but a skeleton within five years. Because of Mils information, the graves will be reopened tomorrow to verify portions of Bloch's story oo |