Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-05-01
JIM SHAW'S DEATH.
A STRANGE CASE EVIDENTLY UNRAy.
ELED

A STRANGE CASE EVIDENTLY UNRAv-
The Murderer Dies Unknown and Mskes mn
Sixn-I'Uried III Porter's Field.
The following from the Sunday edition
of the Baltimore Day leaves no doubt
that the man who died at the Baltimore
City hospital q month ago, under the
name of flames Campbell" ard vas
buried in the potter's field there, was
James Shaw, the Colerain township wife
murderer. Tho Day says:
A representative Of the Day yesterday
saw Pat Mullen, superintendent Of the
Eastern public cemetery, and asccrtained
that tie body of John Campbell, OF James
Shaw, was buried in the cemetery and is
still there. Daniel Battenfield buried him,
and says that he took the body from a
dissecsing table in tho City hospital on the
18th ot April. the same day upon which
Shaw died. The body had been slightly
cut for surgical purposes, and Battenfield
did not notice it very particularly. As
we'll rs he could remember, however. de-
ceased was about five feet, ten inches tall,
with closely -shaven beard. The body was
taken away i'll a public burial van and
inferred in that part of the cemetery near
Herring run. The dispatch was read to
DR.. Fraser Thomas, physician at the City
hospital, and he was asked to think care
fully and endsavOr to remember all tho
circumstances in connection with Camp
boil or Shaw visit.
81 remember the case very WELL" said
DR.. Thomas. "The man first came to tho
dispansary Of the hospital which is on the
lower floor, or tho 18th Of March, and
asked me to dress his right ieg, which, ho
said. he had accidentally cut with an adze
while hewing table. He iimped littls
when he came in examined the wound
and found there were symptoms of &rysip-
elias i'll it. The injury must have been re-
ceived at least two days before he came
here, and may be more. The murder was
committed on the 7th of March then if
the man did not receive the wound in tho
encounter with his wife, it must have been
inflicted on the journey from Lancaster to
Baltimore. I dressed the wound, and tie
next day March 13)the man came again.
l dressed the III jury anil told him ne should
be in the hospital. He replied that prob
ably he Should, and that night. IN making
a round of iiin wards, ! ,uIind Campbell in
one of them lie gave lis uanc as John
Campbell, o"cupation farmer and carpen-
tor, residen"c baltimore county, and aged
As years. Link ,e DIust have been at
least 80 ye..S .: not older. Ills beard was
short and stuhby, he had no mustache,
and If the iorme. Vas pointed, as it is
stated in your cis..atrt,, i; must have been
trimmed after he left !.arcaster. Dr..
Van Note told you last night how DO
acted while he was here. ite was very
careful to !.eep his psrtalncns out Of
sight, hnt we noticed no particular nerv-
BUSINESS ~ his manner, nor did ne express
any desire when dying to make any state
ment. He suffered considerably in his
last moments. He had 10 bundle of any
sort with him when he came to the dis
pensary. l should not have thought from
his speech that he was totally yunacquainted
with Baltimore. His first visit was about
12 o'clock in the day. The wound was
evidently self-intlicted, being in that part
Of tho calf which an assailant could only
attack with difficulty. The information
and description given me leave no room
for doubt as to who the man was
He had no money on his person when he
died."
A visit was next paid to the Philadel.
phia, Wilmington Il Baltimore railroad
depot ut President street. as the point
where Shaw most likely landed ON his ar
rival at Baltimore An employee OF the
road who refused to give his name, was
asked if lie remembered seeing a man all
| sweIing the deceased's description at any
time N the depot during the month Of
March. Tie man thought slowly and
| carefully for several minutes before he re-
piled: 9 den remember seeing any per
| son Of that description in the depot, but it
seems to me, put a man like him Off
train ct Hayview, about the 10th of March.
II was q through freight train from Will
| fHi2gtcu which arrived in EattirnCrc.
IS weil as l can remember, bout
'cloal at night. The rl":; wps
siIadin. between two cars. gvirll
each foot ON siding, when J tound
him. ! asked him where he can," rom
and b. told me he got OF at Wilui';Q ton,
and whCn | told him he must gel .: lie
said he had ridden from Philadeli hia to
| Wilmington on freight train and no OBJ
lection had beea made. When he reached
Bayview l saw him again and told him le
couldn't stay on tie train. He said all
| right, hs cou!d get otf, 81" did not see
him again. Tic description of Shaw tai
lies pretty well with that Of the man in
question.
Marshal Gray said yesterday that he
had written to the police of Christiana,
pa., giving a description Of the man, and
asking hem what action to take in the
matter, brt SO f.4r had received 10 reply.
He thought there was not the slightest
doubt ibunt the deceased being the muir.
t!eror.