The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-02-14
A GRIM SKELETON.


Yesterday, about noon, Mr., Joseph Girls
som, while In search Of fallen timber for lire
wood, in the Trinity bottoms, happened upon
tho
sKELRT0N on A MAN,
Lying some sixty yards from the road, just
wost of tho Trinity river, near where Turtle
creek emptlcs, about mile and half from
town. Without stopping To investigate he
loft hls toam and went back TO the roaa and
hailed man passing by to come and
view tho remains with him, The
skeleton lay alongside and rather
under large decaying log, Tho body had
evidently been put there for conceamcnt aud
had been covered up with pile Of brush
aud leaves which lay scattered around near
by The
SKULL WAS CRUSHED
In on the right side, almost the entire part of
the parlctal bone being broken. The bones
were baro Of flesh, only few Of the larger
llgaments adhearing 10 them. They were
scattered around over the ground Ms
though tho body had been disturbed
by hogs or other animals, Part of the cloth
ing still chung TO portions of the bones, and
were torn and besmcnrod bith blood, almost
beyond recognition, There Is no question
but that n most
FOUL MURDER
HIS boon committed and the body hidden
away there to cover up the crime. No better
place could have been selected by the assas-
sins for tho secretion Of their victim, II was
II marshy place covered when there is the
least rain-with water, and hcdgcd about
with dense thcket shutting II out from
view.
Justice Peak was notified and dispatched
two men TO bring the remains into the city 10
be investigated by n jury of inquest to be
had and empannaed, In gathering up the
bones, in the search, they found n light gum
over-coat rolled up and stuffed away undor
tho log, On unfolding it it was found to be
BEsMEARED WITH BLOOD.
1t was stained here there nil over, and indi-
Gates that the victim must have met his ter
rible fate upon some dark rainy night,
when the elements favored the consumma-
ton of such dark deed.
VaiIXnrrival of the remains in the city
eporteB who had visited the scene
where the remains lay, made closer it,
spection of what remained of tie clothes.
There was nothing in the clothes by which the
former owner could be identified, the only
articles found in the pockets being two small
sacks of smoking tobacco and a small look
ng-gass set in little frame Of wood about
one inch square, and a box of mercurial
on which We're written the words
'buo ointment" The remenants of the
,lotnes showed that the pants were of q dark
figured cloth while the cont was of yellow
,olor though it might have faded.
The remainder of the cloth
ng consisted of red flannel
lndershrt with n wooden overshirt Of blue
The hair was light brown. The lower left
aw was minus molar tooth, that had been |
Missing for some time, while there were several
esth recently lost from the upper row. They
we're even and the assures OF the skull indi- |
ate that the deceased was Il young man. The |
lothes were very offensive to the smell and |
lots of blood on them showed that tho
esh had not gone by natural decompo-
ition. The man is supposed to have been |
some two months ago. When the
ollin was opened a
LARGE CROWD
iathercd around curious to soc what was
oft of none knows who, perhaps, save his
lurderers. There was hard press about |
he coffin, and not until the skeleton had
cen examined by the jury and the lid re-
laced did they dispense
There was but one witness examined and |
nat was Mr.. Grissom, who related Substan-
ally what has already been stated. After
caring him testify the jury retired and
rought in verdict in accordance with the
bove facts.
The indications are that the victim was
murdered and the body carried there and the
leory most generally advanced is that he
as murdered in the city, no doubt for
honey, and the body carried there.
Comment on such horrible crime commit
I'd in one of the most densely populated and
sections of the State, is unnecessary.
f course the officers of the law will do what
Iys in their power to unravel this dark mys-
Try, and may God speed them in ferretting
ut and Furnishing the perpetrators.