Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1888-07-28
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The misadyenturs OF Samuel Mace Is
A remarkable story OF apparent death
and resurrection. says the Phil adelphia
Press.
Mace is large ard brawny young
man. with an attractive face except
for the absence Of an eye, which was
closed several years ago through an
accident, and gives him facetious
cast OF countenance even in his most
solemn moments. At present he lives
with his mother at the southeast cor
ner of Front aud jefferson streets. and
is employed as a driver for a business
house at Second and Girard avenue
Last summer Mace and his mother
lived at Thompson and Adrian streets
and was employed By the firm OF Stead
4 Murphy as a laborer Ga Wednes-
day in the latter part Of August he
was ordered with two other employees
to 90 TO the Queen street wharf on the
Delaware river, to load resin into one
of the firm wagons. While busily
engage at the work. and standing on
the cap log OF the dock. Mace lost his
balance and fell backward into the
river
Ii was about o'clock IN the after
noon and the cry Of man overheard
brought great crowd Of wlIari.loung-
ers and long shOremen 10 the scene.
The body rema ned in the water I'M
usually long and small skitl.loAd Of
rescuers were about abandoning ths
search when it was suddenly sighted
of the bow. doubled like a ball. and
caught with boat hook just as IL was
sinking again. As soon as il was
hoisted 70 the dock eager hands
attempted TO resuscitass tho Appar.
emily drowned man. They rolled him
over barrel aud exhausted evcry
other means ordinarily ms ed In similar
cases, but without success.
A doctor was summoned aud after
making an examination said very posi-
lively: This man Is dead. That
was enough for Nace's fellow. work.
men. who hurried oil 10 convey the
news 10 his mother aud friends MP
town. The policemen who rang the
patrol box said simply: Send the
wagon TO the Queen street. wharf for
the body Of drowned man When
II arrived the patrol sergeant aud his
crew found n crowd surrounding the
body, but no onU present who knew
who the dead" man was. HIS official
Inquiry developed nothing more thpu
that man had been iished out OF tho
river and that the doctor had pronouu-
ced him dead
The body was placed ia tho wagon
and taken to tue Second district station
house. where il was laid with little
ceremony in the stone corrhlor facing
the cells. The day sergeants dispatch
TO the central station, based on the
patrol sergeant report. was: .Coro-
ner wanted at Second district: bod. OF
an unknown man drowned at Queen
street wharf.
While Samuel Mace was numbered
with the unknown dead in the police
report his aged mother, surrounded by
sYmpathiz ng friends aud rsleatlyss
waited m the little uptown home or.
pecting every moment the arrival Of
his body, His fellow. workmep. In
their haste to convey the news to the
mother, had thUughtlessly left the
police without any Information To %.
tabllsh his identity, and the distract.
ing scenes Of grief had dlspsl!od any
aiterthought in the matter from their
minds
When the night force came on nj
the Second district the sergeant and
turnkey were notified that the BODY of
q drowned man was in the corridor
waiting the coroner's wagon 10 81
taken to the morgue. The second dis.
trict station.hou Is peculiarly built
having its cells separated from the
main building by narrow stone pas
sage that opens at either end In The
yard. Over the entrance to the CORR.
dor dim gaslight burns at night.
That night there were no prisoners in
the cells.
About o'clock, when the turnkey.
who was sitting in the passage, heard
slight noise. like something MOVING
IN the corridor, he was puzzled. and
listened inEently. The second time n
came more distinctly, and had the un-
mistakable sound Of foosstep on the
stone hoor Il startled him, and his
Tear was Increased when he remember
80 that there was nobody inside--noth-
ing but the body of the man fished ont
OF the river. Mastering all his cour.
age he approached the wicker gate
and Deering through he saw the fignre
OF man standing upright in the dim
Ight- Inc next moment tho turnkey
ran wildly through the building, nm.
ietting the sergeant's nerves and
tobacco and CRYING: That body IL I'm
and walking around!'
The sergeant laughed at him. lint the
turnkey declared that in his sngle
glance through the wicket he had aeon
the unknown dead" man standing NJ
his full height with both arms out-
stretched and his eye fixed vaguely on
the uncertain light toward which he
was cropping.
,"PshawF' said the sergeant stlII
tho story, ''you' 70 got em'
or else you 70 dreaming"
The turnkey insisted that be woe
telling the truth. and the sergeant
consented to investigate. They had
no need to go far, for already n tbe
stone passage the unknown deadn
was slowly feeling his way with ths,
same bewildered movement and stars
while from his lips came the aImas,
lnaudlble question:: "fx this 4 statis.,