The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-11-30
Mysterious Wounds.

POUND WOUNDED AND STARVING IN FIRE.
QUENTED PORTION OF A PHILADELPHIA
PARK.
An aged man with grizzled, bushy hair,
and the clothes and appearance OF tramp.
was found late Tuesday evening wander
ing i'm the Park with such an uncertain
gait that he was arrested as drunk. The
Park police were not long in discovering
that his clothing was saturated with blood,
OF apparently several days age, and that he
was emaciated almost to the lasf degree
consistent with vitality. In his throat was
wound to all appearances OF two weeks
duration. Healing had already been ac-
compished at the extreme. Suppurating
sores divided the lips above the trached.
A whistling sound accompanied breathing,
and efforts to speak ended In hoarse
sound not unlike bark.
The patient was nearly dead, and an
ambulance conveyed him to the German
hosptal--such sounds as he made convey
ing the impression that he was a German.
At the hospital his communications were
confined TO the words "hole," park"
"kill," and the extension OF the thumb
and fingers OF hand while he drew the
other hand across his throat, apparently to
indicate assault. His face, when so awak-
.ened. wore III expression o! extreme ter
ror. Those who endeayored TO translate
the words and signs came TO the conclusion
that the man had been attacked by iootpads
and half murdered, after having been rob
bed OF s..
Scraps OF paper in the mans pocket led
Captain Chasteau, Of the Park guard, to
make inquiry ut Thirteenth and Wood,
northwest conner. A man answering that
hot " hal
the father OF Mrs. Denis Mclaughlin. On
SUNDAY Whalen went out as usual for his
Sunday walk. lie had been supported by
Mrs. Mclaughlin and another daughter
since bis arrival ta this country, two years
ago. Ne came hither from Scotland, where
he hat hibored Ia the ship-yards on the
Tyne. Bis daughters preceded him to this
country 10y seyera, years. lie followed.
aged and almost inoapaeitated, after the
death OF bis wife, fwo wears ago. Since
then he hsS been supported by his daugh-
tiers, about the only contribution by him
being such occasional scraps Of wood, coal.
or proyisiops ~ be found on the streets or
were given In charity.
BE was Qeiei old man. not even given
TO beer.drinkis,s, and chewing tobacco in
such moderation that fvo~eent plug
lasted Kim fortnight. When he started
Qua on Sunday be left word with the land.
lady that he would be back a. usual. That
was the last seen Of him. lie had never
before absented himself from q meal. and
his walks seldom extended beyond 4 few
docks from home. He had NOT visited his
other married daughter, living In Kensing~
son, wi,niu ihree weeks. and IL was suQ- |
posed that he had gone 10 see her.
IL u reasonably certain that he could not |
have had more than few cents with him
when be went away; hence the mystery Of
any attempt TO kill him for money. He !
had no knife, and hence disbelief in sIi.
eide, further deepened by the fact that he
was strict In all religious exercises and ap-
parently thoroughly contented. He never
drank, and therefore bar-room row fails 20
solve the mystery. There is no hole with
10 bali mile Of the spot where he was
found. and II seems incredible that man
with wounds that may yet prove mortal
should have wandered, consciously or IN. I
consciously, since Sunday, which q The 1