Cottage Grove Farm Girl
Shot to , Death Near Home
' Cottage Grove 4J.R Mary El
len Campbell, 18, a deaf mute
farm girl, was. found shot to
death near her home here Sat
urday with a bouquet of flowers
clutched in her hand.
Harlan Belcher and his son,
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Ken, neighbors of the Campbell
girl, found the body in heavy
brush on a wooded knoll about
four miles south of Cottage
Grove and reported she had been
shot in the back: .
Belcher said he saw only a
bruise on her forehead when the
body was found, but Lane county
District Attorney C. E..Luckey
and Coroner Fred Buell said
death was" caused by a small
caliber bullet which entered her
back and lodged in her .chest.
Luckey said the circumstances
of the airl's death were "un
usual" but he had no suspects
and was not certain that foul
play was involved.
Her parents', Mr. and Mrs.
Dana Campbell, said she was last
seen about 6 p.m. Friday as they
left the house briefly. Mary El
len waved to them from a win
dow, they said.. When they re
turned, she was gone.
Later Friday night, they be
came worried and with police
and neighbors began a search.
The body, with the bouquet
clasped in a hand, .was discov
ered about 1 ajn.
Deaf Mute Woman
Dies in Accident
Hear Myrtle Point
Myrtle Point (U.R) Mary
Minter, a deaf-mute from Chl
cago, was killed Friday whenj
a car in which she was riding
with three other deaf-mutes col
lided with a logging truck near
Bridge, Ore.
The car. driven by Rodger
Meisman, Chicago, tried to pus
another car on a curve and
crashed into a logging truck
driven by Ralph Thomas Chap
pel, Myrtle Point.
Two Hospitalised
Meisman and two other deaf
mute passengers were brought
to a hospital here. The others
were identified as Jack L. Val
entine and Clemens J. Barth,
both of Chicago.
Murder of Father Admitted
By 16-Ycar-0ld Minnesota
Boy; Youth Dynamites Body
Bemidje. Minn. U.B A lft-
year-cld boy has confessed that
he shot and killed his father,
draggSl his body into barn,
dynamited it. then burned the
barn to the ground. '
Lloyd Knutson told authori
ties he had planned to kill his
father. Earl Knutson, the 87-year-old
gravedigger at Back
duck. Minn., for at least two
weeks.'
"I hated him for a long time,"
the boy said.
Will Seek Indictment
Beltrami County Attorney
Herbert Olson said he would file
a Juvenile delinquency petition
against the youth and if that
were approved he would go on
to seek a first degree murder
indictment.
The father's body was found
Joe Roush, a pasenger in the j Wednesday in the splintered and
truck, suffered a leg injury,
State police said Meisman
would be charged with reckless
driving on his release from the
hospital. .
The four deaf-mutes were em
ployed by the Leon Krakover
Deaf-Mute Sales organization of
Chicago.
burned wreckage of his barn at
Blackduck.
Olson said the boy had worked
out an elaborate plan to kill his
father.
On Tuesday he took a large
caliber deer rifle and hid it in
a wood shed, OLoa said. He also
obtained two sticks of dynamite.
Bizarre Suicide Revealed
By Young College Student
Phoenix, Arix. . U.R) A called it "the wierdest case
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young college dramatics student
told authorities Saturday he
drove with a friend to the desert
near here, waited while the
friend committed suicide with a
hose to the car exhaust, then
drove "the stiff back to the
college.
George Lee Augspufger, 22, of
Phoenix, told sheriffs deputies
he and another friend then sat
with the body and discussed the
death.
The victim was identified as
Fred Wcge, 22, whose home is
in Ridgcficld Park, N. J.
Note in Pocket
A note was found in his pocV
et which said:
"This is an age of speed, and
the man who finishes first is
not to be looked down upon."
Deputy Sheriff David P. Ed
wards said Augspurger told of
ficers he and Wege and another
friend spent several hours
Thursday night in a tavern near
Arizona State college at Tempe.
where the victim was a sopho
more mathematics student
Waited on Rock
Augspurger told the deputies
he walked away and "sat on a
rock" for half an hour.
When he returned, he said he
found the engine running and
a garden hose which they had
picked up at Augspurger's home
was running from the exhaust
through a window.
The note found in Wege's
pocket said he was leaving his
possessions to his roommate, and
his body to Dr. Herbert Stahnke,
a professor at Arizona State
college at Tempe.
Edwards and Heffelfinger
they ever heard.
The Carr mortuary in Tempe
said it had contacted Wege's
mother, but she was too upset
to state what she planned to do.
The youth's father is believed to
be an Army major serving in
Korea.
caps and fuses used by his father
in logging operations in this
sparsely-eettled north woods
area.
When th youth returned from
school Wednesday, Olson said,
he told his father he was going
out
When the man came out Ol
son said, young Knutson fired,
striking his father in the chest
The man staggered but .did not
fall. Olson said.
Olson said the boy was an ex
pert marksman. He took careful
aim and fired again. The second
shot hit his father in the head,
killing him. ,
The boy then dragged the
body into the barn. He placed
one stick of dynamite under the
stomach and the other under his
head. He rigged the fue and
lighted them.
The explosion decapitated the
father. Olson said.
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Then the boy set fire to the
barn and left the farm in the
family car. '
Young Knutson picked up his
17-year-old sister. Agnes, and
told her what he had done.
The brother and sister, ac
companied by schoolmate. Cor
don Bloomquist returned to the
farm, verified that the father
was dead, then drove to the
home of a relative. Stanley En-
berg, where authorities were no
tified.
Olson said the . boy's long
standing hatred for his father
apparently was the sole reason
for the slaying.
American Man Wounded
In Night Spot Brawl
Sidney, Australia UR An
American ship's engineer was
wounded critically and a woman
injured in an early morning
brawl Saturday in an apartment
in fashionable Darling Point
here.
Police said Arnold Dahlberg.
31, engineer aboard the Pioneer
Castle, was found in the entrance
of the apartment by detectives.
Police found Kay Biliski. 27. col
lapsed on a bed in the apartment
suffering head wounds. Dahlberg
had been shot in the lower ab
domen. . ,
Police arrested Mikxlav Tuma.
27. part-owner of a Sydney night
club, on charges of shooting
Dahlberg with intent to murder
and assaulting Miss BiliskL
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Grand Mound. Wash.
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