Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-05-02
ANOTHER TRUNK HORROR.
A CHASTITY Discovery by a Baggage
Master
AT THE UNION DEPOT. PTTssuRs.
A Body Horribly DecOmpOsed and
MutlIated Found in 4
Trunk---Ihree
ITALIANS APPEAR ON THE SCENE.

PirrsBuRG, May This evening about
6 o'clock Baggagemsster Jenkins, at the
Union depot on bursting open trunk
which gave out suspicious odor, was hor-
rifed to find therein the body Of a man Sc
curely bound and in an advanced state OF
decomposition. The face was badly discol-
ored and bloated, and the stencil was 50
great that it kept'at safe distance large
crowd which quickly gathered. The trunk
was a common wooden one and evidently
had not been in use before. Il arrived here
from Chicago over the Pittsburg, Ft Wayne
and Chicago Railroad at GAO a. m. on the
morning express and was checked 4lIl, put
no person called to claim it.
The baggagemaster noticed q peculiar
smell when it was unloaded from the tram
this morning, but no attention was PAID
IN il until this morning, when
the stencil became unbearable. After
a consultation, tn. railroad officials dec'-
deed to open it and the result was the ghas:-
" discovery. The body, in order to get 1t
into the trunk, had been bent almost double.
Around the neck, arms and legs was hemp
cord about one eighth Of an inch IN thick
ness which had been drawn 81 tight that II
had cut deep into the flesh. There were no
marks of violence, and so far as could be as
certained from an outward examination the
stomach wasin normal condition. The body
was that of a laboring man probably thirty
Years old, of short heavy build, with smooth
face. He was dressed in pair of checked
WOODEN pants, a blue cotton shirt, blue
wooden stockings, and on his feet were
pair Cf new congress gaiters. IAere was
nothing on his person that would
furnish any clue to his identity
except an international money order
in favor of Fihppo Caraso for S25.45. The
order was drawn at Chicago, on February
"a, 1885.
Immediately after the finding of the re-
mains Coroner Dressler was summoned aud
the body was placed in his charge. A tele-
gram was sent to the baggage agent at Chi
Csgo, but he replied that he had no means
of finding out who had checked the trunk.
The coroner is now no ding an invesiga-
ton. He is of the opinion that the remains
were in the trunk at least &c hours.
The Inquest.
PlTTsBURGH, May l.-At the Coroner s
inquest Drs. Hamilton aud Shaw, who made
a post mortem examination, testified there
were no external marks of violence on the
deceased. All his organs were healthy ex-
cept the lungs, which were badly congested
| THIS could result from sufocation or stran'
guation. In accordance with this testi-
mony, a verdict was rendered that the de-
ceased came to his death from straugulstion
at the hands OF persons to the Jury un-
known" There appears to be no doubt he
was an Italian.
Three Italians On the Scene.
CHICAGO. May l.-Diligent enquiry here
has failed to develop any facts concerning
the supposed shipment from Chicago OF the
trunk opened this evening at Pittsburg and
found to contain corpse. The baggage
men at the Fort Wayne depot, however, be-
'ieve from the description of the baggage
ard number of the check that it was left
there yesterday morning by three Italians
who brought it 10 ths depot in an express