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Show MYSTERY-SOLVED MYSTERY-SOLVED Stickpin Found in Stove Is Said to Belong to ; Missing Carpenter Detroit, Jan. 7. With rumors and stories of all sorts floatlns about tho countryside today, near Columbus township, where a dismembered body was found yesterday afternoon stuffed stuff-ed Into the Methodist church, there Is not one positive development toward to-ward solving tho mystery which shrouds the crime. Suspicion of the accuracy of tho Identity of the body as that of Re. John H. Carmlchael of Adair, dcvel- cpod today. ; Another man Is missing from thn ' neighborhood. Gideon Browning, a car-1 car-1 puiter. who lived near the minister. Only the trunk of the victim's body, I part of the jaw-bone and the trtlso 1 teeth arc left to offer a possibility j nf identification. The identification as Rev. Carmlchael wax largely based f on the fact that bloody clothing ie-I ie-I longing to the minister and other pos-1 pos-1 sessions of his including his spe-i spe-i tacles. were found In the church. But the sheriff paid today that he did not consider this necessarily posiltvo proof that It. was the minister. There had never been any trouble between Browning and the minister, so far as is known. Tuesday after- noon, Browning left a Grand Trunit train at the nearby village of Hlck-ey Hlck-ey and inquired the way to the Meth-culist Meth-culist church in Columbus township. He said to the two different men that i lie had an appointment' thero with a man. No reason Is known why Rev. Carmlchael should have gone to tho church unless he had an appointment there. Among the evidences of the crlmo taken from tho stove, in which tho murderer tried to incinerate his victim's vic-tim's body, is a stickpin, which tho sheriff says has been identified as belonging be-longing to Browning. Prosecuting Attorney Brown disagrees dis-agrees entirely with the theory that the murdered man may not be Rev. Carmlchael and says he considers tho identitv clearly established. In the investigation of the movements move-ments of Rev. Carmlchael and Browning Brown-ing immediately before they disappeared, disap-peared, it has been discovered that I Monday morning. Mr. Carmlchael I went to the home of Browning's sls-I sls-I tor and had a conversation with Browning. The latter's eleven-year-old nephew says that his uncle told him that Rev. Carmlchael was going to get him a job wnere m wnUm hot.3 nothing to do but "stand around and smoke cigars." and that the minister had given him a $2 bill with which to go to Tort Huron. Tueslay mornln?, I hefore the minister left his home, on the drive from which he never returned return-ed he had a conversation on the d-pot d-pot platform at Adair with Browning before the latter took the train for I port Huron. The minister afterwards returned home hitched up his lmrao i and started on the drive. Before leaving leav-ing home, he told Mrs. Carmlchael he was going to Columbus township to ee some parishioners about organlz- ir.g a revival. He was later In the day seen in tho neighborhood of the church. |