Traer, Ia., July 10.—The body of Frank Linhart was exhumed and a second inquest held, at which evidence of foul play was found.

     It will be recalled that Mr. Linhart, who lived in Cutlier [Clutier], came up missing on Saturday, two weeks ago, and no effort was made to locate him, or even any mention of his disappearance was made until Tuesday or Wednesday of the following week. He was found on Wednesday in a shallow pool of water not three feet deep.

     A coroner's inquest was held at which the verdict was death by drowning, as he was known to have suffered a stroke of apoplexy some time before. The people of Clutier were dissatisfied with the verdict and appealed to the county attorney, who in turn, asked permission to exhume the body for a second inquest. At the second examination on Saturday it is said a fractured skull was discovered and other evidence to denote a violent death.

     Mystery still envelopes the death of Frank Linhart, who was found lifeless in a stream near his home town, Traer.

     Dr. Henry Alert [Albert] has completed his pathological examination of Linhart's exhumed vitals, which he examined in the Iowa university and Iowa state laboratories, in quest of evidences of disease.

     If any existed that might have spelled a fatal ending, then foul play might not be alleged.

     He, like Prof. W. I. Teeters, who sought poison traces, declared he is bound in honor not to make a public statement as to his findings, and there fore he has sent his report to the state officials, only, and asks the newspaper boys to await the state's announcements.

     The following story sent anent the tragedy is from the Cedar Rapids Gazette something along the line of the Daily Press' earlier announcements.

     The Gazette said:

     Interesting developments may be expected in the case of Frank Linhart, of Clutier, believed to be a murder victim, according to State Agent J. E. Risden of the attorney general's office, who is in charge of the case. While no arrests have been made, a special session of the Tama County grand jury has been called, which in itself is considered a significant fact.

     Linhart, it may be recalled, went fishing with a friend, on a stream in Onieda township between Clutier and Elberon three weeks ago. The friend returned to Clutier alone. Linhart did not return and little of no effort was made to find him from Saturday until the following Tuesday. Then the town took up the search and on Wednesday morning the dead body was found in three feet of water. A few weeks before that it is said, unsuccessful attempt was made to poison him.

     Analysis of the dead man's vital organs has been made by Dean W. J. Teeters of the college of pharmacy at the Iowa State University. Dean Teeters has mailed his report to Mr. Risden but refused to say whether he had found any trace of poisoning or not.

     When seen by the Gazette reporter today Mr. Risden also refused all information as to the result of Prof. Teeter's [Teeters'] examination. Mr. Risden said that he expected to have some startling disclosures to make about the last of this month and explained that while the special grand jury had met at Toledo on Saturday, it was necessary to order a postponement of the case until July 31, owing to the fact that one of the jurors was absent.

     Toledo, Ia., Aug. 2—Frank Wisner of Clutier has been arrested charged with the murder of Frank Linhart.

     Linhart was found dead in a shallow creek on June 23.

     It was decided that he had drowned, but relatives were not satisfied with the verdict and started an investigation.

     This resulted in the exhumation of the body and a post mortem.

     In this inquiry expert chemists at the state university were enlisted to examine the vital organs of the deceased.

     They came to Toledo Saturday to give evidence before the grand jury.

     The report of the grand jury has not been made public.

     Wisner, however, was arrested Saturday after the session of the grand jury, by Marshall O. H. Chitty of Clutier and was turned over to Sheriff N. S. Peterman.

     Reasons for the arrest and the theory on which Wisner is connected with the case and charged with the murder of Linhart are not known and will not be given out by the officers until after the grand jury report is filed.

     Linhart disappeared on a Saturday. It is claimed that his disappearance was not reported to the authorities till the next Tuesday. Search then was made and he was found face downward in Salt Creek about six miles southest of Clutier.

     The water was not more than three feet deep.

     A verdict of death by drowning was returned by the coroner's jury. Linhart had suffered a stroke of apoplexy some time before his body was found.

     The protest of the people of Clutier was so vigorous that the county attorney started an investigation, the body was exhumed, the post mortem followed and then the session of the grand jury and the arrest of Wisner.

     Murder is now suspected in the Frank Linhart mystery. Frank Wisner of Clutier, Iowa, companion of Linhart, when the latter went fishing, at Traer, and vanished, has been arrested, following the grand jury's session, at Traer, Saturday.

     S. U. I. experts were subpoenaed, and testified.

     Dean W. J. Teeters of the college of pharmacy, told of his discoveries as to poison or no poison, in the dead man's exhumed vitals.

     Dr. Henry J. Albert testified as to the presence of disease germs in the man's body.

     Both S. U. I. savants refused to disclose their testimony, describing it as in opposition to the tenets of professional honor, but the arrest of Wisner lends belief inevitably that they must have made two discoveries of correlated type—that is, that there was evidence of poisoning; and that disease did not kill Linhart.

     The central figure of the mystery disappeared, the day he went fishing, and was never seen again until his lifeless body was found, face downward, in Salt Creek, six miles from Clutier.

     His body was exhumed, after the coroner's jury first decided that apoplexy caused his death, and after relatives had become suspicious.

     The prosecuting attorney is believed to have built up a case, bit by bit, against the prisoner, and that he will make a bitter fight to convict Wisner.

     Murder is now directly charged against Frank Wisner, who has confessed—it is alleged by James Risden, recently in Iowa City, as Attorney General H. M. Havner's special agent—that he poisoned to death his uncle, Frank Linhart.

     Sheriff Peterman, County Clerk Russell and County Attorney H. J. Ferguson (a former fellow-classmate of W. J. McDonald, S. U. I., law, 1901) are also among the men who aver they have heard Wisner's confession.

     He is quoted as admitting that he secured some rat poison, and administered it to his kinsman when they were on a fishing trip, June 19.

     Wisner, the alleged confession proceeds, was indebted to his uncle, and had been looking for weeks for an opportunity to invite Death to cancel the debt.

     He finally stole some rat poison from Joe Zmolek, late in May, or early in June, and stored it away, pending the trip. The men went fishing; Linhart became thirsty, asked Wisner for a drink—and the latter's chance was at hand.

     Accordingly, he dumped the deadly stuff into the receptacle, and then handed the poisonous draught to his uncle, who tossed it off—and duly died.

     Ultimately, the body was found lying face downward in a few feet of water, in the stream near Traer, and Clutier.

     University of Iowa Scientists aided in the pursuit of evidence, as already recorded herein.

     Dean W. J. Teeters, of the college of pharmacy, and Dr. Henry Albert, as told in the Press, examined the vitals of the dead man, for traces of poison, or germs of disease,respectively. Neither has given out the contents of the respective reports, or summarized his subsequent testimony before the grand jury of Tama county, but it is generally accepted that their findings led to the arrest of Wisner, and the information they evoked and gave the state's officials must have played a goodly part, too, in laying the foundation for the state's case, and making it possible for the officials to push the prisoner into a confession, since Wisner must have been surprised to find out how much the officials knew about the secret conditions.

     One June 23, Linhart's body was found face down in Salt Creek six miles from Clutier, where he and his nephew, now facing trial for murder, both lived.

     The coroner's jury returned a verdict of death by drowning, it being represented that Mr. Linhart, who had suffered a previous stroke of paralysis, had been overtaken by a second stroke.

     After residents of Clutier protested the decision to the county attorney a full investigation was ordered and the body exhumed in order that the vital organs might be sent to the university laboratories for examination. Prof. Henry Albert, professor of pathology and bacteriology and state bacteriologist, and Dean Wilbur J. Teeters of the college of pharmacy conducted the chemical examinations which proved strychnine had caused Mr. Linhart's death.