Missing Farmer Found Drowned

Missing Farmer Found Drowned

The body of Fred Braun, farmer, missing since 6 o’clock Tuesday night, was found this morning in a sink-hole on the edge of Joslin lake, near Bridgewater, by sheriff's officers and farmers who were conducting a searching party. Coroner Edwin C. Ganzhorn stated that death was caused by drowning. Officers believe that Braun suffered a temporary loss of memory and fell into the sink-hole in his wanderings.

Mrs. Braun, wife of the dead man, who lives at 12140 US-112, started the search for her husband when she called the sheriff’s department Tuesday night. She said her husband had gone with his dog to a pasture to get his cows and that she became alarmed when the dog returned without him about a half hour later and she searched the field, but could not find him.

Neighbors reported to officers yesterday that they had seen Braun walking barefoot in the vicinity of the lake. Sheriff's deputies found his footprints in the mud on the edge of the lake and near several sink-holes which led them to believe he had fallen into one of them.