, 1870-05-13
SEAR0H FOB 4 BODY.
West side Officers Look for q Dead Man
and Find a Lire Dog.

somc OF the Officers on duty at the Madison
greet Station were the victims Of Joke,
Yesterday afternoon, which Will be held up to
Them for sometime TO come About O'Clock two
5uyeniles sccosted Policeman Simmons as he Was
travelling his beat On kinxie Street, aud informed
him That the body OF man w1s lying under the
eldew ak On the corner Of Indiana and Union
streets. lie repaired at once to the place indi-
Gated. and, although he did not discover the ca-
daycr nc did discover IN impression IN the earth.
which, from its appearance, he concluded had been
made by human being. Imagining that nu1uer
had been committed, the unfortunate hla
temporarily beneath The wa1l, ard removed since
house md told Detective Ed Miller what he had
learned and observed That officer. Wltn ser
geant johnson and Policemen Lee and Caaplh,
returned with Simmons determined 70 &ae
mystery. They lid unraFcl 1t.
johnson and the officers took charge OF me s:de-
wax, whilc Miller, limiting ne ooaF mEat M nave
clotbes and borrowed & suit OF Gid ones He then
commenced his explorations
,ncnced vigorous search. In some places they
were obliged to advance face town'd the gronnd,
hut what did they carc7 Ever willing to obey
pe s iu,:nIda;ed ND b tic prospect of funnins into
dead man+ They traTerscd half q block each way,
Int nothing tnantmate wAs discovered, except
rats, stay cat, and miniature puppy.
Miller had worked his way along under the
house slowly as 1t w4s very dark. HI WIS more
successful than the other party In one respect
he 1pnn1 an impression similar TO thu one under
the sidewalk, reJofced thcreat, and became
convinced that he would find The dummy. But he
g. Id not. When about to gtrc up the search, he
trawled along obliquely short distance, and Was
brought to stop BY EfoTL Picking up stone
he hurled 1t towards the utterc1 thereof, and tu-
mcdately thereafter he saw something 1afge and
black moving towards q hole through which day.
Light peepeL Advancing Z few feet be found
another impression The mystery was unravelled,
and he made his way ont as rapidly rs possible.
The "dend body" was 4 large Newfoundland
dog, owned by a man named Fitzgerald, who
Keeps saloon neaz by
The energetic detective called hts brothers to
1tL1, md c1ptdined In q loK voice.
The presence Of the officers when they first ar
Iiyc<1 Was Eoticeti by two men, who stopped the
corner and looked at them. In short time m
ether ceased his walking up the street, AMI, when
tie officers commenced the search, about twenty
fscFsuns had congregafed In the vicinity. When
they u1afle their exit there were fully three hun-
lred, each one Of whom WEB anxious to know
Htlat WIS going on. One Of those individuals who
are 11ways well posted n said man had been
cut up md the policemen we1c hunting for the
picceA Another Of the same class de-
ciarcd that he had heard tho CIT
OF "Help" the evening previous, and was
sure q man had been 1ouly dealt with. The cur1-
ostty Of one OF the CROWD enabled him to ind out
the result Of the Investigation, and, when 1t WAS
whispered to two or three others, everyone Of the
three hundred was aware Of It 1t two minutes A
hearty laugh Was fndu1gel in, and, as the officers
left the place, they salutctl with, How about
thai dead man7 Is the dog dead7"