The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-12-02
ANOTHER MYSTERY.
Paid Two Dollars 10 Take
a Man to the Hoboken
Hospital.
HIS SKULL is FRACTURED.
The Victim Came From Shady Side
and Had Evidently Been En-
gagged in Struggle.

The existence of a mystery that may
prove a murder was communicated TO
the Hoboken police by the Sisters of St.
Mary's Hospital this morning AT about
noon yesterday covered wagon passed
through the gates of the hospital yard
and boy jumped from the wagon seat
and summoned the attendants.
He said he had an unconscious man In
his wagon whom he wished to be taken
into the Hospital. The Mother Superior
was called and she talked with the boy.
He said that while he was driving in
Shadyside, which is near Fort Lee,
at about ten o'clock he was accosted by a
man whom he had never seen before, and
who asked him if he would take friend
of his to st. Marv's Hospital. The boy
did not seem willing to accede to the re-
quest and the man offered him 81.
TOOK THE NAMES.
The boy said he would take the man to
the hospital and did it, with the aid of the
man who had accosted him, lifted the
man into the wagon from the road near
the Catholic church in Shadyside, where
he was sitting propped up against tree.
The boy then drove away, lesving the
man standing in the middle of the road
watching him out Of sight. That was all
he knew of the case, he said, and the man
was there in the wagon. He had not
spoken at all during the journey.
The hospital attendants lifted the man
from the wagon and placed MN on a;
stretcher. He was of medium height.
had q light mustache; was of fair comd
plexion; had blue eyes and SCENE
about forty years old. He wore
a dark suit of clothes of fair material. a
dark overcoat, a made scarf. OF dark
material. His shoes and underclothes
were in good condition. He was wholly
unconscious when taken from the wagon
THE BOY DISAPPEARS.
The boy drove away as soon as the man
was removed. The man was taken into
the hospital and examined by the
doctors. He had a scratch on
his forehead whi was probably
inflicted in q scuff1e. No other marks
were perceptible and the doctors attrib-
uted his unconscousness to a possible
injury to the head which was not appar
ent through any marks. The man was
made as comfortable as possible, but
sank rapidly until he died at nine O'Clock
at night without regaining conscious
ness.
The only cause the doctors can name il
fracture of the skull. Immediately
upou his death his clothes were searched
that, If possible. his identity might bs
discovered, but there was not even s
scrap of paoer found
ONLY EMPTY POCKETS.
The pockets were as empty as II every
thing had been removed to prevent any
identification of the dead man.
The police were Immediately notified
The matter is in the hands of Police Cap
tain Hayes, who has sent Detective Gal
lagher to Shadyside.
The hospital people say that the
scratch on the forehead was probably
made by blow, and this it is which
makes it probable that the man received
his death injuries in melee.
There is no trustworthy description oi
the boy who brought the dying man in
his wagon rattling over the stones in
broad daylight yesterday. The
Sisters are unable even tC
give any but a general idea of the rig
They do not remember the descrip
tion which the boy gave oi
the strange man who hired
him at Shadyside. None of the residents
in the neighborhood can remember what
the wagon looked like AMI the police have
hardly any Information to work upon.
The body of the unidentified man will
be taken to Cranes morgue this after
noon. There it will await the orders OF
the County Physician, who will probably
make an autopsy.
The police regard the affair as com
plete and serious mystery.