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The News-Palladium
Benton Harbor, MI
May 15, 1933


              HUNT SLAYER OF RECLUSE
                AT WHITE CLOUD
                
              59-Year-Old Farmer Found 
               In Home Beaten to Death
               
              (By Associated Press)
              
              White Cloud, May 15. - With no clues to guide them,
            officers today sought the slayer of CHARLES ERNENPUTCH,
            59-year-old farmer whose body was found yesterday in
            the house where he lived alone west of White Cloud. He
            had been beaten to death.
              A neighbor, RAYMOND FRANTZ, found the body and notified
            Sheriff W. C. BIRD.
              Sheriff BIRD said that blood stains found in the yard
            and about the house indicated ERNENPUTCH was killed out
            doors and his body carried to the bedroom.
              ERNENPUTCH was described by the neighbors as "very
            religious" and a regular church attendant for the past
            four years. Six years ago, they said, he served a
            sentence in Ionia reformatory for a liquor law violation
            but since then had nothing to do with the liquor business.
            
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