The Burlington Gazette, Dec. 15, 1915
June Sales is Murdered
Mangled Body of Former Resident of Burlington Fount in Davenport Today.
Davenport, Ia., Dec. 15.—June Sales, employed taking care of boats in the winter harbor below Davenport, was found murdered in his cabin this morning. His clothes were torn from hi body, which was badly mangled.
Sales was 50 years old. He was employed as caretaker for the Dallas, a boat owned by E. D. Stiles of Des Moines. A number of other boats are kept in the harbor, and the men in charge of them had not seen Sales since last Wednesday. When his body was found in the frozen. There were several dents in his head and a pair of bloody tongs were found lying beside him.
It is thought he had been dead a week.
Two men who were with Sales for a few days prior to the last time he was seen are being sought by the sheriff.
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June Sales was about 53 years of age and was born and reared in this city. He was a painter and paper-hanger by trade, but had not been here for several years. At one time he was member of the local police department and had many friends in this city who will sincerely mourn his untimely end. He was of a quiet and good-nurtured disposition, and his keen shafts of wit were ever enjoyed by his friends. He was a member of an old and highly respected family in this city, the surviving members of which have the sympathy of friends. He was better known to many as “Col.” Sales.
He is survived by three sisters and one brother, as follows: Mr. Lon Owens of this city, Mrs. Mattie Fleckel of Washington, Mrs. A. R. Barnes of Albia and Ad C. Sales of Chicago.
The Burlington Gazetteer, Dec. 16, 1915
Will Be Buried Here
June Sales Body Will Be Brought To This City.
Time Has Not Been Fixed—Now Believed Death Resulted From Exposure—Autopsy is Held.
Davenport, Iowa, Dec. 16.—The theory of murder in the case of June D. Sales, the watchman, who was found dead on the yacht of E. D. Stiles, of Des Moines in the Davenport winter harbor Wednesday morning, was exploded today when at an autopsy it developed that the severe abrasions on the body were caused when it was torn from the floor of the cabin where it had been frozen to the boards.
The physicians holding the autopsy declared that the man had died of exposure.
June Sales is Murdered
Mangled Body of Former Resident of Burlington Fount in Davenport Today.
Davenport, Ia., Dec. 15.—June Sales, employed taking care of boats in the winter harbor below Davenport, was found murdered in his cabin this morning. His clothes were torn from hi body, which was badly mangled.
Sales was 50 years old. He was employed as caretaker for the Dallas, a boat owned by E. D. Stiles of Des Moines. A number of other boats are kept in the harbor, and the men in charge of them had not seen Sales since last Wednesday. When his body was found in the frozen. There were several dents in his head and a pair of bloody tongs were found lying beside him.
It is thought he had been dead a week.
Two men who were with Sales for a few days prior to the last time he was seen are being sought by the sheriff.
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June Sales was about 53 years of age and was born and reared in this city. He was a painter and paper-hanger by trade, but had not been here for several years. At one time he was member of the local police department and had many friends in this city who will sincerely mourn his untimely end. He was of a quiet and good-nurtured disposition, and his keen shafts of wit were ever enjoyed by his friends. He was a member of an old and highly respected family in this city, the surviving members of which have the sympathy of friends. He was better known to many as “Col.” Sales.
He is survived by three sisters and one brother, as follows: Mr. Lon Owens of this city, Mrs. Mattie Fleckel of Washington, Mrs. A. R. Barnes of Albia and Ad C. Sales of Chicago.
The Burlington Gazetteer, Dec. 16, 1915
Will Be Buried Here
June Sales Body Will Be Brought To This City.
Time Has Not Been Fixed—Now Believed Death Resulted From Exposure—Autopsy is Held.
Davenport, Iowa, Dec. 16.—The theory of murder in the case of June D. Sales, the watchman, who was found dead on the yacht of E. D. Stiles, of Des Moines in the Davenport winter harbor Wednesday morning, was exploded today when at an autopsy it developed that the severe abrasions on the body were caused when it was torn from the floor of the cabin where it had been frozen to the boards.
The physicians holding the autopsy declared that the man had died of exposure.
The Burlington Gazette, Dec. 15, 1915
June Sales is Murdered
Mangled Body of Former Resident of Burlington Fount in Davenport Today.
Davenport, Ia., Dec. 15.—June Sales, employed taking care of boats in the winter harbor below Davenport, was found murdered in his cabin this morning. His clothes were torn from hi body, which was badly mangled.
Sales was 50 years old. He was employed as caretaker for the Dallas, a boat owned by E. D. Stiles of Des Moines. A number of other boats are kept in the harbor, and the men in charge of them had not seen Sales since last Wednesday. When his body was found in the frozen. There were several dents in his head and a pair of bloody tongs were found lying beside him.
It is thought he had been dead a week.
Two men who were with Sales for a few days prior to the last time he was seen are being sought by the sheriff.
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June Sales was about 53 years of age and was born and reared in this city. He was a painter and paper-hanger by trade, but had not been here for several years. At one time he was member of the local police department and had many friends in this city who will sincerely mourn his untimely end. He was of a quiet and good-nurtured disposition, and his keen shafts of wit were ever enjoyed by his friends. He was a member of an old and highly respected family in this city, the surviving members of which have the sympathy of friends. He was better known to many as “Col.” Sales.
He is survived by three sisters and one brother, as follows: Mr. Lon Owens of this city, Mrs. Mattie Fleckel of Washington, Mrs. A. R. Barnes of Albia and Ad C. Sales of Chicago.
The Burlington Gazetteer, Dec. 16, 1915
Will Be Buried Here
June Sales Body Will Be Brought To This City.
Time Has Not Been Fixed—Now Believed Death Resulted From Exposure—Autopsy is Held.
Davenport, Iowa, Dec. 16.—The theory of murder in the case of June D. Sales, the watchman, who was found dead on the yacht of E. D. Stiles, of Des Moines in the Davenport winter harbor Wednesday morning, was exploded today when at an autopsy it developed that the severe abrasions on the body were caused when it was torn from the floor of the cabin where it had been frozen to the boards.
The physicians holding the autopsy declared that the man had died of exposure.
June Sales is Murdered
Mangled Body of Former Resident of Burlington Fount in Davenport Today.
Davenport, Ia., Dec. 15.—June Sales, employed taking care of boats in the winter harbor below Davenport, was found murdered in his cabin this morning. His clothes were torn from hi body, which was badly mangled.
Sales was 50 years old. He was employed as caretaker for the Dallas, a boat owned by E. D. Stiles of Des Moines. A number of other boats are kept in the harbor, and the men in charge of them had not seen Sales since last Wednesday. When his body was found in the frozen. There were several dents in his head and a pair of bloody tongs were found lying beside him.
It is thought he had been dead a week.
Two men who were with Sales for a few days prior to the last time he was seen are being sought by the sheriff.
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June Sales was about 53 years of age and was born and reared in this city. He was a painter and paper-hanger by trade, but had not been here for several years. At one time he was member of the local police department and had many friends in this city who will sincerely mourn his untimely end. He was of a quiet and good-nurtured disposition, and his keen shafts of wit were ever enjoyed by his friends. He was a member of an old and highly respected family in this city, the surviving members of which have the sympathy of friends. He was better known to many as “Col.” Sales.
He is survived by three sisters and one brother, as follows: Mr. Lon Owens of this city, Mrs. Mattie Fleckel of Washington, Mrs. A. R. Barnes of Albia and Ad C. Sales of Chicago.
The Burlington Gazetteer, Dec. 16, 1915
Will Be Buried Here
June Sales Body Will Be Brought To This City.
Time Has Not Been Fixed—Now Believed Death Resulted From Exposure—Autopsy is Held.
Davenport, Iowa, Dec. 16.—The theory of murder in the case of June D. Sales, the watchman, who was found dead on the yacht of E. D. Stiles, of Des Moines in the Davenport winter harbor Wednesday morning, was exploded today when at an autopsy it developed that the severe abrasions on the body were caused when it was torn from the floor of the cabin where it had been frozen to the boards.
The physicians holding the autopsy declared that the man had died of exposure.
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June D. Sales, Feb. 12, 1861, Dec 12, 1915
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June D. Sales, b. 12 Feb. 1861, d. 12 Dec 1915, Davenport, Scott Co., IA
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