Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-03-31
A NAN FOUND DEAD.
Falling In q Fit and Struggling With
Death,

O68tns
About 8 o'clock yesterday morning Acting
Coroner Mccarthy, was notified by j. B. Rice
assistant superintendent of the st. Paul
Manitoba road that the train men reported
that man was lying dead IN the road up near
College place station. The coroner went i'm
mediately to the depot where Mr.. Rice very
kindly furnished him with an engine with Mr.,
Jarvis as conductor and cent him
out to the station, near Hamline university
On arriving there they found the man about
quarter Of mile from the station, lying in
the highway, near the fence, his coat, vest
and shirt off, and IN state of nudity to the
waist. His hat and suspendsrs were near by
The coat was gone and had been stolen, prob
ably by some person after the man had taken
it off. The dead man had not pulled his hands
out of the sleeves Of his shirt
and had apparently struggled I'M
successfully, either in drunken
condition, or in fit, to get his hands out
but had not succeeded. The result was that
the sheet was twisted up and his hands held
together by it.
THE STATION AGENTS STORY.
The ticket agent on the station, Orlin Kit
tie, saw the man abont Ii o'clock Wednes
day forenoon, and recognizs I'd him as the mar
he saw three days before, and to whom he
sold ticket for 20 cents with which to come
to st. Paul. At that time the man told the
station agent that he wanted to get into the
Door house He further stated
that he was subject to fits, and that he had
been recently discharged from a position on
account of being subject to fits. The deceased
also. at the same time, told the station agent
that he had sister living in st. Paul. The
station agent further informed Mr.. Mccarthy
that when he saw the deceased the day before
at II O'Clock there was another man with him
(the deceased). This other man the station
agent described as wearing black slouched
hat and light colored pants and that he was
about five feet eight or ten inches in height.
He supposed both OF them were
tramps. The body was found about 8 O'Clock
yesterday morning by the section boss Calimar
King. On the inside Of the vest was the
name A. W. Erudof. The deceased wore a
soft, light colored hat, brown pants had light
colored short hair light colored chin whiskers.
No marks of violence were found upon his
person. The theory is that he had one of the
his coat and vest and as far as he could throw
off his shirt, but that in his haste
forgot to unbutton the sleeves and conse-
quently could not release his hands; that in
this condition he fell to the earth and in tn t
position struggled on the ground till death
came to his relief. This idea OF the matter is
confirmed by the fact that the men who came
down on the train the night before report that
they saw man struggling and supposed he
was drunk. His face was covered with
dry dirt, and his eyes, that were part
" open, were also half filled with
dirt. The coroner brought the remains to st.
Paul and placed them in the undertaking
rooms of Mccarthy & Donnelly. He was at
first in some doubt as to whether or not he
ought, under the circumstances, to hold an
inquest, and finally concluded that, as there
were no indications from any source that the
man came to his death from violence, there
was no necessity to incur the expense of an
inquest.
LATER.
The body later in the day was identified as
that of the brother-in-1aw of one OF the
Gronewald's- here in st. Paul. The parents
of the deceased live in Terre Haute, Ind, and
were telegraphed to, but at a late hour last
night no reply had been received. His par
ents are in easy circumstances.