Arizona silver belt., 1892-07-09
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Th Beds fdentired is that Of E. V.
 Cnrtis.

Mrs. E. A. Hooker received a lette F on Tuesday last, from her daughte o Mrs. B. ". Curtis, at San Diego, cor
 veying the sad intelligence SFat tn
 body found in the water at ocea, ,, Beach, near San Dieg7, dune 2sth, va that of her husband who left hon,
 May 3lst.
 The san Diego and other coast pa
 pers have recently contained man,
 allusions to the Ocean Beach mvste
 ry." Mir F ". Wostmeyer has re
 ceived several clippings in reference tl
 the matter. It seems that on jEe 2stl
 ut, q party Of picnFcers discovered a
 headless human body foating in the
 water, in a little cove near Ocean
 Beach The authorities were notified
 Of the discovery, and on the following
 day had the corpse removed from the
 water 1t was nude with the excep.
 tion of the feet which were covered
 with wooden socks. The body wac somewhat swollen and decompoged
 and as a copseeuence the examination
 made was but slight, and the renaing
 We're inferred as those ofe woman.
 No clothing was found except the socks, which were preserved, and hear ing Of Curtis disappearance the off cers went to Mrs. Curtis and asked if she could describe the socks worn by her husband. She did 90 and her de- scription tailed exactly with the socks taken from the dead body. She had alarmed them with two kiads of valn differing in color from the socks, and upon seeing and examining thanl Mrs. caris declared them to be those worn . by her husband She being fully sat- ished of the identity Of the body. it was diainterred and given sepuIcbrein Mount Hope cemetery,
 As before stated, BIr. Curtis left hts home on Che 8lst of May. to leol, for employment At about 1 o'clock D nv on jbai day, he applied for work at place i've miles from San Diego where they were laying water pipe. put he was unsuccessful. This wastbe ast seen of him alive.
 The theory is that he then went to Ocean Bcach to bath6 snd tbc shore where he entered the water being ackyi he kept his socks on to protect is feet UFop entering the water he oubaeas Euccumbed to tae uudertow which is very strong there and was / rowued, The body sank and the cad is supposed to have caught be- %een rocbs orip some other obstruc- on, and remained fast for four weeg le cob and flow of the water having Hally caused it's separation from the II unk. The neck bore evidence that cr ,e severance Of tne head had been but gently effected, and tho body was in h r'tch better state Of preservation F; an it could possibly have been had been floating for eoH great iaagts dl time.
 B. W. Curtis was for several years a ai adent O Sal. Eiyeg valley. G,ia ao untN and was well and aro,ably town. His unnatural death is most ei plorabie, anc great sympathy i felt Che bereavod family
 During ,Ae War og the Rebel ton. ~ E. Curtis war ou tEa T. S. guuboa. r5, lianola, commanded by Captain own, now Admiral. Thc vessel r5u io blockade Of batteries ct Wick burg eh 'ecss-oliy 5u. wu subsequently lE by two Confederate gaaa be- Fie5sburg and the crew taken sopers. Admiral Brown, few nihs siuae Naa in Sau Diego, and object which iir Curtis had h ng there v9s tdatf8 Brown , ee' bis assistance m aaurtara is5ca. In this la vas Disappointed
 .a Admiral sailed few days be- AT, logtis arrived. Tho dacesed
 two sisters living in san Dtseo, n whom Mrs. Curtis and her ~o a .dFcn arc visiting