Morning journal and courier., 1890-04-24
FouNDrn THE RIVER.

The Body Of . missing Saloon Keeper
 of Hartferd Found After many Days
 Discovered by . Sailor-The Hartford
 Police Think 1t a Case of Murder.
 By Connecticut Associated Preas.l
 CROMWELL, Conn.,, April 23.-This after noon Sanford Brainard, sailor on the barge Nauticus, saw body floating in the Con- necticut river and after some trouble sue oeeded in getting 1t ashore. The body was floating near the freight depot. Coroner Davis of Middletown was summoned and upon his arrival here proceeded to make an investigation. He found number of docu , ments on the body which led him to believe that the body was that of Thomas Lynch, the missing saloon keeper of Hartford. The body had evidently been in the water for some weeks and the clothing was in such @ state that it was hard to say how the man had been dressed. A hand- kerchief was tied around tho drowned mans neck 50 tightly as to cause the coroner and medical examiner to suspect that there might have been foul play and that the man might have been strangled and his body thrown into the river. Ac- cording the coroner ordered an autopsy to discover whether death had resulted from drowning. A number of documents were found in an inside vest pocket. One was a bill from the Hartford Coal company. dated last November and made out to Thomas Lynch. The bill was for $24 and was not receipted. Another document was note for $50 for Q horse. It was signed by Thomas Lynch and made out in favor of George w. Pomeroy. There was e receipt for the note also and this was signed by Pomeroy.
 Dr. Calif, the medical examiner, when seen this evening said that the body had doubt less been in the water six weeks. The body was go decomposed that he could not tell positively whether the deceased had died from drowning or not, but he thought ths probabilities were that the man had been dead when he struck the water. The hand. kerchief around the neck was tied very tightly but could not have stranRled the man, the doctor said, unless some one held the ends On the whole, the doctor thought the case looked very suspicious. Dr. Cal'tl said that Lynch's wife had come down from Hartford and had identified the body as that of her husband. He disappeared from Hart ford March 10.
 HARTFORD, Conn.,; April 23.-The looa police think that Thomas Lynch, whose body was found at Cromwell to-day, was the vic tim of foul play. He was last seen alive or the evening of March 10 at about S:3( o'clock. He was intoxicated at the tim' and was seen driving towards the river witt man named John Bolan. Mrs. Lynch ar rived home from Cromwell this evening, and she is convinced that her husband was thu victim of foul play and she is anxious to hav' Bolan arrested. The prosecuting attorney however, refused to issue warrant until h. got the medical examiners report, or unti more convincing evidence is offered. Lyncf had considerable sum of money on his per son at the time he disappeared, but no none! was found on the body. It is learned tha his silver watch stopped running: at $50 twenty minutes after he was last seen. Tn police take little stock in the theory tha Lynch fell into tho river; as they fail to SCI l hou Ina cou1d havr dOna eo