The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-05-01
.ass;on Of money, as is demonstrated by his
nantaloons pocket having been ripped open.


nantaloons pocket having been ripped open.
WHO ENURDERED HIM?
When last seen alive by anybody who |
knew him, Mr.. Carpenter was in company |
With tall, etout built man of somewhat
shabby appearance. This was between Z
and s o'clock last night. A young man
named Murphy, who was acquainted with
tbs deceased, gives the information, but is
unable to- say in which direction they
Walked. or to furnish any other particulars.
About half past IL o'clock, officers on duty
in the neighborhood of Wells street heard
two shots fred in the direction of the lake,
but were debarred from proceeding tntner
TO ascertain the cause OF the hrlng, as
would have been an Infringement OF regula-
tons to leave their beats. NO weapon was
found near the elevator with which the deed
conld have been committed. Where was.
the Waterman at the time of the shooting
If officers on Wells street could hear the
shots fred, surely he, if not asleep, could
the murder at the time it was perpetfated,
aad possibly have secured the arrest of the
assassin, or even might have obtained such
information by repairing at once to the spot,
as would tend to throw some light on the
u
the capture of the murderer. 2
The habits of the deceased are said to
have been very steady indeed. Mr.. Carpen-
ter was very sociable and good natured.
however, and it is possible that these quail
ties led to his untimely end, having caused
| him to accept the companionship OF his
| murderer. on representations made by the
latter, hundreds of which class Of vampires
are always lying in wait TO prey upon the
unwary. =.
So far, the police have not the sliehtes
clue to the mystery, excepting in the bare
information given by Mr.. Murphy, but de
tectives are actively engaged in the soiutior
of the tragical case.
| THE INQUEST.
| An ;nauest will be held on the murdere'
mans remains so soon as DIR. I. w. Mile
| shaU have made post morton examination
of the body. The investigation will TAX
place at the Armory, Coroner Wagner pre-
siding.
THE DECEASED r#
, was the son of a doctor, living in the stat
| of Vermont. He was about thirty years
f age at the time of his death. his wife r
| sides in Davenport and has no family. IN
t sad news of her husbands death was 'ei'
|. craphed to her this morning.
From the Chicago Post, April so.
n The murder of a Mr.. Geo. F. Carpente
s of Davenport, near the Union depot, la
| night, for the evident purpose OF roooer
+ is an event that challenges the extreme
: VIGILANCE of the police for the discovery al
). punishment of the cut-throats who did q
r deed. Meanwhile the public will wond
L Co. k,r, narntl
T. stranger. to suffer himself to be deeoyed
e tolled off to the vicinity of the elevators
g. the Illinois central docks, near the mouth
I. the harbor-a place as lonely as graz
d | yard after dark-at so late an hour as
70 or ll:30 at night This fact alone Dug
at to afford a clue that can be successfully
r lowed ND. The deceased was man I
b. unacouainted with the dangers of great
les, and as there is no reason to supp
f that he was drunk, it seems clear that
to did not go to the spot in which his body
ne found except at the solicitation of some O
it in the honesty of whose intentions he trust
ID Now, who is the man? 1t Is possible q
he Il will appear that he attended the circus
,r- the foot of Randolph street in the evenl
a and that in coming out he was misled
bit the murderer who took his life. That I
cd | is hardly possible, because he had been so
ne | weeks 10 the city, and on such an evenl
I'M could not have mistaken his way, especls
ed as to have gone to the docks, he must ha
or wholly separated himself from the cro'
Of every man of which must have gone so
d. or west from the point where the cir
rt tent is pitched.
*, That Mr.. Carpenter was murdered for
en- money and valuables, and that the muI
rar was deliberate, the facts in the case ADM
ch no doubt. 1t will be disgrace to the
en-. tective force of Chicago if it Is not abb
lie solve the mystery.
ro- INQUEST ON THE BODY OF Mr.. CARPENTI
W. This afternoon an inquest was held u
sse the body of George F. Carpenter, who
SEQ mysteriously murdered last evening at
OF vator B, near the mouth of the river.
At vious to the inquest, DR.. J. 4. Gore, COZ
re- physician, held a post wOrfens e1amlna
upon the body, and found that a ball, al
me the size used in Smith Il NELSON'S revolt
20. o. had entered the right temple, passing thro
the the brain and being fatteued by stril
'ec the inside of the left temple. Death r
Vi have been instantaneous The verdic
the iury was ''that Geo. +. Carpenter C
to his death by pistol shot fred by $
firm / person unknown to the jury, on the nigl
and April 29th, 1868, at elevator b, neal
that mouth of Chicago river
and
the Coal Valley Democratic Club.