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Sixth Street and supported herself by
means of the restaurant. John Johnson, a
street car motorman occupied a room in
her cottage. Mrs. Buckthorn was found
dead in her bed, in a pool of blood, with
two bullet holes in her head this morning.
Mrs. Grady, the restaurant cook said, "I
became alarmed when Mrs. Buckthorn did
not appear as usual at the restaurant this
morning and went to her home to find
her."
Inquiry showed that Mrs. Buckthorn
had drawn $250 from the First National
Bank yesterday and her daughter, Mrs.
J. D. Jackson, 1548 Sixth Street, says that
her mother often kept such sums of money
at home under the mattress of her bed.
Mrs. Jackson also says that she often
warned her mother against such habits.
The money was not under the mattress
this morning.
Further inquiry showed that John Johnson
did not appear for work as usual this
morning and was later found by Police-
man Patrick O'Hara in the railroad yards.
He had with him $223.67 and a ticket to
New York. He was known to be hard up
but refused to account for the money and
was given a berth in the county jail.
Samuel Benson, cas.h.i.+er of the First Na-
tional, is sure that the two 100-dollar
bills which were found on Johnson are the
same bills that he gave to Mrs. Buckthorn
yesterday afternoon. Johnson will be
given a hearing to-morrow but it is al-
ready considered certain that he is the
guilty party, the evidence being so strong.
(This story may be rewritten for local use and for a dispatch.)
III
Sparks, resulting from the grounding
of an electric wire, ignited a bucket of gas-
olene and fired the shop of the G. W.
Smith Motor Co., at 228, 232 West street
last night, five automobiles valued at
$5,800 being destroyed and the building
being damaged to the extent of 6,200 dol-
lars by fire.