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<\/a><\/p>\nDead in a Car of Wheat.<\/span><\/h2>\nPERRY, Iowa., Dec.\u00a013.\u2014At Aspinwall, seventy-five miles west of here, a man was found dead in a car of wheat yesterday. The body was still warm. Later in the day a young man named Ted Stevens was arrested at this place. When taken to Aspinwall he confessed to killing the man with a car pin, and that he relieved the man of $69. The murdered man’s name is Carson, and he is supposed to have friends near Tama City. Stevens is about eighteen years of age. His father lives east of this city and is a highly respected man. Young Stevens ran away from home about a year ago, and was beating his way from the west when he fell in company with his victim, whom he finally murdered by beating his brains out.<\/span><\/p>\nFrom the Collection of The Comtesse DeSpair<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"December, 1887 Dead in a Car of Wheat. PERRY, Iowa., Dec.\u00a013.\u2014At Aspinwall, seventy-five miles west of here, a man was found dead in a car of wheat yesterday. The body was still warm. Later in the day a young man named Ted Stevens was arrested at this place. When taken to Aspinwall he confessed to … Continue reading Dead in a Car of Wheat<\/span>
From the Collection of The Comtesse DeSpair<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" December, 1887 Dead in a Car of Wheat. PERRY, Iowa., Dec.\u00a013.\u2014At Aspinwall, seventy-five miles west of here, a man was found dead in a car of wheat yesterday. The body was still warm. Later in the day a young man named Ted Stevens was arrested at this place. When taken to Aspinwall he confessed to … Continue reading Dead in a Car of Wheat<\/span>