Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-11
LIGHT ON THE SUBJECT.


the Unfortunate Man Found Dead on
the G., u. Il Q. Traek-.
Marshal Brennan has today come into
possession of information that may lead
to the establishment of the identity of
the dead man whose mutilated body was
found near the c., B. & @. tracks east
of the c., R. l. P. round house yesterday
morning as described in last nights
ARGUS. The coroner's Jury failed as
stated, to ascertain who the unfortunate
man was. When discovered by Carl
Boltz. who runs switch engine in the
c., R. I. & P. yards, the body was lying
over on the south side of thu
Burlington embankment, and Boltz
discovered of the body by first seeing
the horrifying spectacle of foot
near the tracks, while pieces of
flesh were yet sticking to the
rails. Boltz at once notified Mr. Mir
field of his awful discovery, and that gen.
teman in turn apprised Officer Meenan,
who, going to the scene. made an exam
ination of the body and found, the hands
and face cold in death. though the back
of the neck was yet warm, showing that
life had not left the body very long. This
was at about s o'clock in the morning.
| The corner afterwards made an examina>
ton. summoned jury and the inquest
was deferred until afternoon with the
results heretofore given. and the body
was taken in charge by Undertaken Knox,
at whose rooms it remains.
Today Al. Cahill. the barber. advises
the marshal that about midnight Tuesday
he came down from Moline after the cell
ebration on an accommodation freight
train There were several fiat or coal
cars in the train and in one of them was
a man Cahill thinks was the man now
dead. He sat on the forward end Of one OF
the fiat cars the last time he remember!
seeing him. The man was ridine
backward. Cabill went to Knox
undertaking rooms today with Marsha
Brennan, and identified the face of thu
dead man as the same as the one WHOM
he last saw on the car From these fact
Marshal Brennan is pushing al
investigation as fast as possible
His present theory is that thu
man whom Cahill saws had the ap-
pearance of having been drinking, wal
thrown from the train at the spot indi
Gated, by the sudden stacking up of the
train as is the custom, to lessen the speed
somewhat at that iuncture where the tract
rounds up close to the G., R I. & P
round house.
The mans light foot was completely sew
cred and left on one side OF the track Will
his body with the left leg terribly mutt
lated as far up as the knee, lay part wa
down the embankment on the opposit
side. According to the theory now bein
worked upon, the man was thrown fror
the train about midnight. 1t was nearl
eight hours sfterward when the body wa
found, and then from indications he hs
not been dead more than two hours
His body was not bruised in the least
J and he must have died from the shoct
! What his agonies must have been in this
lonely helpless state during the six hour
intermission. can best be imagined.
The dead man, as reported yesterda!
t appears to have been about thirty yea
/ of age. He was neatly though cheapl
D dressed. He had brown mustsche
t his hair being thick and dark aud slight
r sprinkled with gray. His hands had tn
e appearance of being those of bar
working man. From the evidence TIL
!, far developed, he must have been mint
2 living either at Presumption or Gable, ju
= over the Mercer county line. The bod
Y will be kept to await further develop
8 ments.
t Officer Sullivan today says he think
: the dead man was in town Tuesday vii
e Jack Lynch, of Gable, and he heal
:, Lynch call him Stewart.