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Show MRS. RUSSELL CULBERTSON IS VICTIM OF MOST BRUTAL MURDER She Was Found in Shed, Bound and Gauged, Dying From Use of Carbolic Car-bolic Acid Before Lapsing Into Unconsciousness, She Said a Man and Woman Had Committed the Crime No Trace of the Murderers Has Been Found. 0G test $3.92; molasses sugar, $3.17. Refined, steady; crushed, $5.55; powdered. pow-dered. $4 95; granulated, ?4.86. COFFEE Steady; No. 7 Klo 8 1-4; No. 4 Santos. 9c. Chicago Livestock. Chicago, March 25. Cattlo," receipts . estimated at 16.000; market Bteady; beeves ?l.60a7.00; Texas steers ?4.10 nb.EO; western steers ?1 . ioa;j . tu ; stocKers and feeders ?3.35a5.5U;cow3 and heifers $5.90aG.U0. Hogs Receipts estimated at 23.000; market 5c higher; light $6.40ab.80; mixed $6.55a6.90; heavy ?6.60a6.yt; rough ?6.60a6.70; good to choice heavy $6.70a6.95; pigs 5.35a6.36; bulk of sales $6.70aG.S5. Sheep Receipts estimated at 10,-000; 10,-000; market weak; native 53.6Uats.lf); western $3.60ab.3O; yearlings $b loa 7.25; lambs, native, ?3.75a7.9U; westr ern $5.75a8.10. Vincennes, Ind , March 25. Mrs. . Jes&o Overton Culbertson, who was found in a dying condition last nlgnt ! ag the result of tho uso ot carbolic ! acid, died today. , She was found in the shed at tho I home of her husband's lather and j mother, Joshua Brazelton and wlte, i bound and gagged. Her arm and head J were bruised as If she had struggled i with a robber. After being carried into tho house, she said, "A man and a 1 woman dragged me out of the closet j into the shed, and forced me to swallow swal-low something." Then she became unconscious and continued so until her death. The woman's husband, Russell Culbertson, Cul-bertson, Is a bookkeeper at Law rence-ville, rence-ville, Ills. He declares be Is confident confi-dent that his wife was murdored by persons whose Identity he knows, but he would give no further information, except to the police. Mrs. Culbertson lately had rocelved several letters threatening that If she did not give up her husband she would be killed. The handwriting has been ldentinea ap that of a woman who was a friend of the Culbertson family berore the husband was married. In the pocket of Mrs. Culbertson's apron, tho last of the letters was found. It bore only the word "good-bye," and contained a cross bone mark. The Culbertsons were married last January. The wife came hero seeral ; years ago from Texas us a trained nurse. Last Monday, when Mrs. Culbertson went to the railroad station to buy a ticket for Lawrenceville, where she lslted her husband, she discovered she was being watched by a short" heavy man of middle age, who hur-I hur-I vied to a telephone as soon as he j learned her destination. ' Members of the ISrazleton family say they knew the house was being ' watched, and that they notified the i police and took every precaution not j to leave Mrs. Culbertsm alone. Her ! husband's parents supposed she was ; in the kitchen while the tragedy was ! being enacted In the shed. The entire police force is lnvestigat-I lnvestigat-I ing the case, but so far no trace ot ! the murderers has been round. i |
