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Show TOWN EXCITED OVER MURDER! J Suspect Clings to Alibi Story in Death of Choir Singer. HOPESTOWX. Ill . April 19 Grand Jury Investigation Into the mysterious dcuth of Miss Gertrude H.mn.i, 23-onr 23-onr old oholr slnKT, whose body was found In the basement of the untenanted untenan-ted parsonage of the First United Presbyterian church here, will t Started Monday, it was announced to-! to-! night. The Vermillion county grand Jury WSS not due to convene until May lf. but the date was sot ahead because of the Importance attached to the case by an ii roused community. Tonb.'ht ladles of the sewing clrclo and the weather stained men who I gather Saturduy nights at the corner general merchandise store, were slt-tlng slt-tlng in ludgment on the tragedy of jay young Gertrude iianna, and her lovei I of the plowed fields. Jfphn Wyman, LiKNCTHY GIUIIJVG Wvman known to most everybody In town, as was Gertrude, had been I through :ifi bourn of grilling by State s I Attorney John P. Lawman. Wyman. 36 and well-to-do stubbornly. Insisted that he did not murder the girl He admitted, however, according to the state s attorney, that he was the father fath-er of her child, which would have been born In a few weeks. The Hat statement that "Wyman Itold us a lot of lies. " was made by Sheriff C N. Knox, who assisted the !..,..... o 1 1 .rnfi, in tin. iiiiistluninu ot the suspect. "I am Innocent of the death of Gertrude. Ger-trude. ' said Wyman, who Is a widower. wid-ower. ' . "1 didn't kill her I di.ln't hide hei body In the parsonage so help nie God. I didnt." Wvman whs not placed under arrest. It wos stated by Chief of Police Ho-gart Ho-gart this evening that an arrest or two may be made in connection with the case within - hours. The chief said that evidence indicated thut two persons per-sons mav have been Implicated In the Kil l s .1. a'h if she was killed He said a second man with whom she Is said to have been Intlmato Is being kept under surveillance. BETTER iTES INNOCENCE The examination of Wyman took place In a little room on the second floor of the city hall. At times Wy-mari'B Wy-mari'B voice rose stridently, and appeared ap-peared to be almost hysterical He re-Iterated re-Iterated he did not kill the girl that he had not seen her since last fall. Wvman denied he w as ever engaged to BUSS Hanna. He admitted he went to see tho girl "ii- night last October and that later "her father wanted me to marry her. but I wouldn't. He said that she never seemed "queer" t" him. He said he and Gertrude were members mem-bers of the same church, that he knew the arrangement of the parsonage, but that he had never been In the basement base-ment where the body was found "I used to go to church and certainly cer-tainly know my Bible, and n that Bible I tell you I am tellins the truth." he said. OFFICERS DISBELIEVE The authorities Indicating they disbelieved dis-believed Wyman's story, have begun an Investigation of his whereabouts 6ln--e March 31. th" 'lay the girl disappeared. dis-appeared. The authorities saj 'hey have found several flaws In the suspect's alibi Tonight nt Danville. Ill . the authorities author-ities wore trying to ascertain the ! truth of Wyman's contention that on the morning Gertrude disappeared be j wont from his moth' r's home in Pah s-tine. s-tine. 111., to a friend's house In Lan- Iville. At the same time officials were checking up on other male friends or , the dead girl. |