The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-03-01
DEAD ON TIE STREET
Aoner Fox, Teamstar. Found Dead on
Hydraulic Avenue.

Sunday morning about S O'Clock Abner
Fox was found dead on the banks of
Chlsolm Creek on Hydraulic auenue
Sunday morning as Charlie Schweiter
the ice man was driving down Hydraulic
avenue he encountered team hitched to
coal wagon, without the driver, and
upon looking around he found the pros
trate body of Fox lying on the banks of
| ChlSolm creek where it touches Hydraulic
avenue, lie approached the PROSTATE
! form and found it cold in death with the
lace turned upwards and the vacant stare
OF death in the eyes The body was lit
orally covered with mud and it was at
lrst bard matter to identify the man.
! Officer Hedges was Immediately notified
and he in turn notified the coroner and
| county physician St. John. Both soon
| arrived and after an examination being
made a jury was empannelled who, upon
viewing the body, adjourned to meet yes
| terday forenoon.
| Fox was the brother-in-law of Reynolds,
/ the man who was accidentally killed ex-
| actly five weeks, to the day, by taking
| hold of a live electric wire on Wichita
| street. Upon the death of REYNOLDS, Fox
| applied for his job, and was given the
same team that Reynolds was driving
when he met his death. This was the
team Fox was driving when be met his
death also.
That Fox was intoxicated there was no
doubt. He was at temples butcher shop
late in the afternoon aud was then so
much under the Influence of drink that
the proprietor had to open the door to let
him out. The superstition is that when ne
was going home after dark he fell from
his seat and got his leg caught between
the spokes of the wagon wheel, for
1t was fractured Cries were heard during
the night but for some reason no one in
the neighborhood inquired into their
cause. The night was wet and the street
| muddy and as Fox was found about twenty
feet from the wagon and covered with
mud it is thought that he dragged himself
that distance in vain attempt to seek
shelter from the inclemency Of the
weather. Indeed, there was a track made
in the mud to show that this must have
been the case.
The place where he died is quite a ro-
mantle looking spot and is Ekened by
many foreign travellers to scenes in
Il
night for him aud was Frustrated with
grief when she heard of his horrible death
He is poor mPn aud has been a hard
periodical drinker for some time.
The coroners jury heard the case yester-
day and half dozen witnesses were ex-
amined. Or. ST. John testified that he
came to his death from loss of blood and
exposure and accordingly the following
verdict was rendered:
STATE OF KANSAS
SEDGwICK COUNTY.
An inquistion holden at the court house
of Sedgwick county at Wichita, Kansas,
on the 2eth day of February, 1892, before
me, NJ. NJ. McColllster, coroner of Sedg-
wick county. on the dead body of Abner
Fox, there lying dead. by the jurors whose
names are hereunto subscribed. The said
jurors, upon their oaths, do say that from
the testimony given, the deceased came to
his death from a compound fracture OF the
right leg, the loss of blood aud exposure to
the cold.
jury. H. Philips, Albert Gross, W.
A Stoddard, John Slough, D. Burman,
II. 4. Sturgeon.