The evening world., 1893-11-02
CLUES FOR POLICE.
Mystery Of the Body at Pillar 906
Partly Solved.
The Evening World" Gets Facts
10 Show There Was a Murder.
Police SIN Cling to the Easier The
DRY OF Accident.

''iiNCS NV man VIM Nao
picked up in a dying condition under the
Third avenue Il" structure at One Hun
dred and Eighth street early Sunday
morning is identified in a day or two,
his body will probably be buried in an
anonymous grave in Pntter.s.. Field, and
with 1t the mystery Of an apparent MUIR
der.
The body is now at the Morgue. at
the foot of East Twenty-sixth street,
where 1t was taken Tuesday from the
Harlem Morgue, at the foot of East
One Hundred inc Twentieth street. The
man died On the way to the Harlem
Hospital within an hour after he was
found bruised and bleeding near pillar
No. 9O6. under the l. structure. on the
southeast corner OF Third avenue and
One Hundred and Eighth street.
According to the One Hundred and
Fourth street police, who had charge of
the case, a man named Patrick Fox. of
1877 Lexington venue saw the man fall
from the IL structure, and, although
they have no record OF FoX's business
or occupation, they are sa tisfied that the
mans death was accidental and not
This in spite OF the disclosure OF the
post-mortem examination by Coroners'
Physician O'Hare that the man died
behind the left ear. and that in addition
he had three stab wounds, one over
each temple and the third on the right
side OF the neck; that the lower jaw was
fractured on both sides and the left arm
broken at the elbow.
DIR. O'Hare is confident that the man
vas not accidentally killed. and his
made by an Evening World reporter.
The man. to all appearances. was a
nottingham, He was about 5 feet. 10 or
hair. rather high forehead. high cheek
bones, features inclined to be lantern
jawed," gray eyes and sandy mustache
and chin whiskers, slightly tinged with
gray.
His facial appearance and the cut of
his moustache and whiskers strikingly
resembled the characteristic features OF
BILL" although. his hair was only OF the
ordinary length.
Although he was apparently a man of
ingmen's clothes. comprising q derby
hat. dark jean pants or overalls, blue
flannel shirt, gray merino drawers and
laced shoes.
Over the flannel shirt he wore an old
white sweater" on the wristbands of
initials 70 X" This may be the clue
found in his pockets was a pocket comb.
identified him.
from the II" structure and that he
was an IL employee, perhaps a car
cleaner, or that he might have been
struck by a Third avenue surface car
and dashed against an Il" pillar.
These theories have been exploded by
The Evening World reporter.
Where the man was found dying short
~ before midnight Sunday, 1t would ave
been impossible for him to have fallen
from the 81" structure.
His head lay directly under the IL"
walk over three feet wide and guarded
by a railing projects. on the other side
is the middle track of the Il"
The IL" ties are scarcely a foot apart
and surmounted by braces so that II
would be mex to impossible for a man
to squeeze himself between them,
There was no blood on the Il" pillar
or anywhere in the neighborhood. except
where the mans head rested, where yes
terday there was a blood spot a foot In
diameter.
neighborhood. passed the fatal spot only
five minutes before the man was found
there. Then there was no one in sight.
Schoen had only gone a short distance
ming to the spot.
Among them were two policemen and
a thick-set man. who said:
The latter may have been Fox" bu.
THE Evening World reporter was I'M
able to ocate him at 1862 Lexington
avenue or anywhere in the neighbor-
hood. The address given is a private
residence.
one OF the bystanders ran for a priest
at st: Cecelia's Church. One Hundred
and Sixth street and Lexington avenue,
while a policeman sent for an ambu-
lance. Both arrived before the man
died, but he was unconconscious and
unable to say a word. Or. Wolf. the
ambulance surgeon. says that the man
uttered no word before he died. Just be-
fore reaching the hospital.
the dying man was found there were
the fragments of a quart whiskey bot
tie and a dead sparrow yesterday.
At the uptown station OF the Third
that he knew anything at all about the
dead man or how he came by his death.
Chief Clerk P!nckney, OF the general
ofice OF the a." mechanical department.
at Ninety-elghth street and Third ave
nue., told the reporter that he had in
stiGated an investigation early Monday
morning.
None Of our men are missing" he
said. Il am satisfied that the man was
not one OF our employees. He couldn't
have fallen from the 4" structure at
would have been missed or seen be
cause OF the men at work IN the cars
on the middle track at that point"
AT the Third Avenue Surface Railroad
stables, at SiXty-aeventh street, no re-
port had been received of any man be-
Ing run down or injured, or Of any
blood being found on the dashboard Of
The fact that no money was found on
the dead mans person; thai he had no
"oat although 1t was a very cold night
tHre Of his injuries. leads not only
the Ccroners' physician, the hos
pital and Morgue authorities as we'll
us the police of other precincts than the
Twenty-eighth,. and many private Citi-
zens In the ncighborhoOd to think that
the dead man was the victim of II ans
NJ highwaymen, who added murder 10
tho robbery Of an honest laboring man.
who had probably drawn his wages the
night before
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