The sun., 1893-03-23
FOx'S SUSPICIOUS DEATH.
THE BODY OF A BRoOKLyN PLUMBER
FOUND IN CHEsAPEhHE BAK

| The Skull is Crushed In and u is ThouEht
lie Was Lured Among Oyster Drearers,
| Who Killed Hin for Disobedience.
| Another mystery is added to the number
/ lowering over the waters OF the Chesapeake o
Bay. the home OF tho Maryland oyster dredg-
era Many stories OF murder and violent death
| at the hands OF oystermen are told By people
in Maryland. Tales have been written about
young men having been inveiRled from their
homos In other States to the oyster marts in
Baltimore and thence aboard oyster dredgers.
never to be heard OF again. Those oystermen
are said to have agents In the various large
cities who pay cappers S5 apiece for the men
they bring to them. The unfortunntes. who are
inveigled by the promise OF good jobs. are
forced to work night and day at labor to which
they are unaccustomed: and II they rebel they
are beaten. and II they endcavor to escape
they are killed.
Just how true all this is has never been sat.
isfactorily shown The case Of young Daniel
Fox. son OF City Works Inspector Daniel Fox
OF 495 Fifth avenue. Brooklyn. seems to show
that there is some foundation for these stories.
Young Fox was formerly plumber in Brook
lyn. He was % years old. .broad-shouldered,
hard -muscled. and strong. He worked on Long
Island until early last October when owing to
the dull times. his employers shut down. Fox
was anxious to save enough money to got
married: Among his a@sanaintaances, @ tan , was n,,s
tache. who worked a short time near the shop
in which Fox was en- ployed This man man painted It;
ship % piambeq. S, He I told Fox he could easily eet
Job at Baltimore on n ship that would pay 50
day. at least. He said. too that the work
This man finally Gsrtsundsd ID Fcf ES; t9 go aIS to
family got one letter from him on NOV. D. II
told them to write to him In care Of, steuben6 \
Whecker. grocers and ship chambers. at the
t%ss Sqt sss %asSs TSsn III T. ef9'Ssf5 :;
6im. The brether's search led him to Miller
Island in the Black River. about thirteen n miles
Fsm s6pfFs onp M .Eppsr GPs %S sssF @
disappeared and reward was offered for his
s Sods % Of Sn On sSnE naeS
lying on ne shore Of ths island Tie @ trunk INK
Mss "ee Wsrs wS Ths % clothes
wore when he LEFT hamS ,S wSre sls on the sGdy'
BODY vSas %ss buried 'o Miller IsIssa 5 eIsss
to Fox. signed Nellie. Toden: The enyslGpsS
s. % sSaf5 Eqoosyn 0o MIss Foden lives south
e. ahssSe SesG msn ms5Fy essSsa sSSSaafM
Coroner Cook found the letters ana luSntlHeu
the exhumed body Of his brother. A second
examination OF the body showed that the back
OF the head had been cru she'd In as II by q
blow with club or piece OF iron. The wound
is SO located that the dead man could not we'll
have inflicted 1t. nor fs 1t likely the result OF
fall. ns it Is too far back on the head.
Andrew Fox telegraphed for his father. who
Joined him Yesterday. His mother. Mrs. Fox
and Miss Roden went to Baltimore yesterday
morning. The remains were buried in the
afternoon in ST. Iatrick's Cemetery in Balti.
more. Andrew Fox reached his home last
evening. He said that from what he had been
able to learn he thought his brother was
shsnRhaied by oyster pirates. carried of on
they ordered was murdered.
From what Coroner Cook and could get"
said Mr.. Fox. we are OF the opinion that my
brother was decoyed to Baltimore by tho
Brooklyn acquaintance and was induced to go
aboard an oyster boat. nominally as a plumber
getting 81 day. Once out from land he was
told to help with the dredging and work day
and night. 81 was self: willed. and probably re-
fused. They struck him. he resisted. they
beat him and threw him overheard. We may
be able to learn more: at eny rate my father
will see what he can do. It may he that the
wound In the head was caused By the Ice. but
II SO 1t must have been by jamming; and his
face was not even scratched. We all think he
Daniel Fox the father OF the dead boy. is a
well-known Democratic POLITICIAN In the
Twenty-second ward and a follower OF John
nalmar