NEWS: George Conrad DOCHART Murdered near Parksburg 1903, of Pittsburg, Allegheny County, PA

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MURDERED OVER CARDS.

George C. Dochart Was the Young Man Who Was Found Dead Near Parksburg, Pa.

  WEST CHESTER, Pa., July 29. - The identity of the young man who was murdered 
near Parksburg on the night of June 28, has been established beyond a doubt.  
He was George Conrad Dochart, son of Mrs. Barbara Dochart, of 240 Second 
avenue, Pittsburg.  He had been missing several weeks before he met his death.  
Shortly after the finding of his body, Mrs. Dochart came here and identified 
the remains, but later denied that he was her son.  Yesterday Coroner Troutman 
received a letter from her, in which she admits the dead man to be her son.
  The body will be exhumed from Octorara cemetery and sent to Pittsburg.  
Dochart, who was 35 years old, was murdered, it is believed, in a quarrel over 
a game of cards.  His assailants have not been arrested.

Altoona Times, Thursday, Juoly 30, 1903