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On Feb. 4, 1897, in the town of Walford Iowa there was a dilemma facing Benton County Attorney M.J. Tobin. A suspicious fire had claimed both the general store and the town's only bank. In the basement rubble of the general store the nearly cremated remains of one man had been discovered.
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