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The Bsdy Of Andreas Fex fsHad
In . Well.
FOUL PLAT SUSPECTED
Mas perfectly Sober when last Seen {
The BODY recovered with all tho Enoots
on "a, save . Pookes-book. which
was Afterwards fished mp from
the Welt
Coroner. yor, SIN in s.,on.

body OF Andreas Fox, q we'll
known and very popular lum.
Der dealer hal been discovered
dead at the bottom OF a well in
the rear of the Colorado House.
on Ant street, near the depot,
and In the center OF town. I'm.
mediately upon hearing the re-
port a BANNER reporter hurried
to the s~ene. BY this time
quite a large crowd had gath
cred. The frat sesHe that let
the reporters gas was the body
Of Mr.. Fox. 1t was laying on
the ground, w;sh one or two
negroes very hasi.y engaged in
manipulating it, under the in
structions of the attoading ply
| sicians. At this tin 9 it was
supposed that lite was not y"t
extinct. After All hour or moro
of hard work the doctors de-
clarel that life was extinct,
and the swollen remains,
wrapped in a blanket, were
taken to the office Of the de.
| easel, only about ten or fifteen
! steps distant. A. Try ct inquest
was ut oace summoned by Jus
,tice Hvne.; they wore dnly
sworn in view Of tho corpse.
At this time the excitement in
the vicinity had grown to a
very high pitch; but still moth
ing definite could he sscer-
tanned. As stated in the be-
ginning Of this account the
body was discovered at the
bottom OF the we'll, about 81
o'clock in the morning. Steps
we're at once taken to 4 .aw it
out. The we'll utained only
about five feet If water, and.
when the corpse Was at frat
seen its head and ears we're sl-
parently above water. The well
was an ordirars square one,
about 30 BY SO inches ami was
curbed with ortli,-ary plank,
such as 10 ordinarily uaed for
that purpose. The idea was at
once suggested that Fox conld
not, by any possible means, have
fallen in the well. lie was a
man of much over tho average
weight, being about Eve feet,
ten or eleven inches high aud
weighing between 2l5 or 230
pounds. This gentleman was
what, in common parlance,
known as. a man Of tull habits.
He was soclable and genial;
being German, he was very
highly respected BY the people
OF that nationality. The mys-
terry Of his getting into The well
consists in the fact that although
his business office and bed room
WAS in Close proximity to the
Colorado House, neither he nor
any one connected with
him had been in the
habit Of using water from
the we'll in which his
body was found, ami, IN 'reov'r
the water was said BY the pro-
prietor of the house t" be en-
tirely unfit tor use, except for
washing purposes. The last
dcfinate information OF Fox's
existance as a living being Oh
this medume sphere was from
Mr.. Sam Muery, the keeper of
q saloon on ANT street Mr..
Muery says that on Saturday
night about 1a o'clock, after
closing mp his place of business
and on his way home he seen
Mr.. Fox very near mis- Office.
This SO far as our information
goes was the last time that Mr..
Fox was seen alive by any
white man. A negro who has
worked for Fox, about ten years,
claims to have sat on the gallery
in front OF his Office Mt two
o'clock in the morning. This
statement, however. can only be
taken at its face value the tes-
timony OF the African we regard
as nothing. From street reports
and the best information that
could be gathered BY our repor-
ter it appears that Fox had
either been induced or WAS in-
ticed into the Colorado House
where he was fouly dealt with
and dumped into the well.
AT the time we go to press the
coroner's Jury is still out. The
proprietor of the COLORADO
house his wife; son and a negro,
man are now in Jail. Whether or