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Show FIENDISH CRIME OF NEfiRfr He Is Alleged to Have Brutally Murdered Young White Girl Ottumwa, la., Feb. 8. Joe Hopkins, a negro, the government inspector of meats In the John Morrell Packing company plant here, and one of the j most prominent negroes In this city. Is in jail suspected of the fiendish murder of Miss Clara Rosen, a young .white woman, whose death has shock-1 ed the entire community. The police assert they have the right man. A formal charge of murder in the first degree was filed against Hopkins Hop-kins by tho chief of police today. Miss Clara Rosen, a choir singer, aged 28 years, was murdered last Friday Fri-day night at Ottumwa, Her body was terribly mutilated. She was to have been married the next day to San-ford San-ford Carlson, a mine owner of Iron-ton, Iron-ton, Wyoming. |