The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-07-08
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On Monday afterpOon stranger was Iounu Oh
Sherman street, Chicago, near the Atlantic Ho-
tel, in frightfully pounded condition. His eyes
were bunged up and blackened so as to be sight
less, his lips were cut and swollen SO that he
could not speak inteligibly, and he was other.
wise bruised and beaten. When first discovered
he mumbled something about having been
robbed Of $l5 in a saloon near by, but before he
could enter into any explanation he lost con-
seriousness He was carried in an express wagon
to the Harrison Street Station and then trans
ferred to the hospital in the patrol wagon. He
never regained his consciousness In the even.
ing, Tribune reporter says, both eyes were
discolored and closed, his lips were cut and
swollen out of all semblance to lips, there was
scratch about three inches long on the left side
of his face, bruise about two inches in diameter
Just over the heart, half dozen small black and
blue spots about the abdomen, and black and
blue spot us big Us ones fist in the left groin.
The left hand was badly swollen, as II he had
used it in striking something or some one heavy
blow" From all appearances the man suffered
from conclusion of the brain, though there were
no external evidences of wound on the head
He may also have been badly Injured internally,
as the marks upon the body indicated that he
had been heavily kicked. The man was consid-
erably under the influence o. liquor, the odor OF
which wis still unpleasantly perceptible upon
his breath. At $50 p. VI. the man died lie WAS
a man of perhaps 80 years, with brown hair
straight and rather thin, and wore brown mus
tache. His hands indicated him to be laboring
man. His clothing consisted OF dark cutaway
str
striped shirt, wooden socks, black silk flat scarf
and buckle shoes. There was Western Union
telegraph blank in his pocket, upon which was
the following without date, written in pencil
Mrs. Mary Lawrence, care Macher's grocery,
La Sale street, Ottawa, III. Send me sl5 by
telegraph Immediately" There was no sigma
ture.
Nothing was known OF the case here until the
papers of Thursday reached ottawa. The Chi
cago papers for some reason suggested his name
might be Kelley. Enquiry at Maher Bros, how.
ever, can trace no such man as "kelley." lhey
do, however, know one John Lorenh or Law
renee, in English, who on Monday last was pro-
vlded with ticket and money to carry him to
Pittsburg. He was a bottle.blower, but worth
less fellow, whose wife, divorced from him at
the beginning of this term OF the circuit court
keeps boarding house on La Sale street, just
north of Maher Bros store. He was hard and
reckless drinker, and has frequently been on the
tramp: and it is believed has been carrying the
telegram mentioned for some time past as last
resource when dead broke" The description
given atove TALES with Lawrence who went
away on Monday, and the dead man is no doubt
John Lawrence
In regard to the case the Chicago Times of yes
terday says: detectives were engaged in en-
deavorng to find out something more concern
ing the unknown man with the terribly bruised
body, who fell nsensible in front Of the Atlantic
Hotel on Sherman street, Wednesday afternoon,
and who was taken to the hospital where he
died that night. In addition to the account pub
lished in the Times, yesterday, it has been learned
that he came to the city July 4; that on that day
he met Special Policeman William Miner. and
asked him to find the conductor of the train on
which he arrived and get his ticket, which, he
said, the conductor had taken from him. Al
that time the strangers face was bruised badly
and the wounds did not look fresh, but as If they
might have been received days before. Miner
made inquiries, but could find out nothing about
him or his ticket. The mrn's clothes were very
dirty and smelled as If he had been lying in some
Die. sty or cattle pen. He was also somewhat
drunk Miner saw him again Wednesday, jus
before he was taken to the hospital, when HI
found who knew anything about H."