Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1893-11-20
With THROAT CUT.
Terrible Act Of An Insane La
bOrer.
THE DEED DONE WITH A RAZOR,
A Mysterious Letter Found On
His Person.
WHEN LAST SEEN.

A man OreSSeu III uldCh CuihOhAiA"
oyercoat, overalls, soft hat, and plow
shoes, registered at Hotel Willamette
Saturday evening, as o. Mitchell. de
acted strangely to close observers;
bought two 15-cent cigars; sat about the
hotel staring vacantly before him; was
restless and moved from one chair to
another; dozed on his hand and started
up wildly. The hotel force paid no at
tention to him, thinking he was under
the influence of liquor. He called for
his room and the elevator boy started
TO take him up. He took of his coat
and asked If that was his room, and
prepared to 60 to bed in the elevator.
No one knew when he left in the morn
ing.
WHEN NEXT SEEN.
This mans body was next found by
B. F. Hinshaw, who was going to
Turner, at about IL a. N. Sunday. He
was lying with his throat cut, in the
open roadway near the railroad fence
lust south of the Oregon state reform
school six miles from Salem. The first
trace of blood was four feet from the
fence about l50 feet south of the reform
school station. Then there was blood
all the way for a rod ending in large
puddle, and about seven feet from the
puddle lay the body, still warm when
found, and the razor near by it. There
were no signs of violence or of struggle.
A brass button. such as there are none
like it on his clothing was found lear
the first blood stains.
THE TOOL WAS
a white handled razor, new y ground
and in q black case with the following
written oD the case, "L. d. Jones,
Monmouth, Polk county, Or" Also
the words new edge. A ten dollar open
face watch and brass finger ring was
also found on his person. There is
barber at Monmouth by that name.
OFFICERS NoTIFIED.
Mr.. Hinshaw notified Justice Batch
elor of Salem at 1890 Sunday. He
tele phoned County Coroner Stott who
wired him to 60 ahead and hold the ln-
quest. Mr.. Hinshaw was the only
witness and the inquest was held on
the spot where the body lay as it was
found. After the inquest Undertakel
Clough brought the body to Salem
: where it awaits Identification.
: THE VERDICT.
STATE OF OREGON,
County of Marion.
To ]. Bachelor, acting coroner:
We, the undersigned coroner's jury
having examined the body of an un
D known man found with his throat cnt
e southwest of the Oregon, Reform schoo
one fourth mile, near the Southern Pa
cific track but outside of the barbe6
wire fence, along said track, find as fol
lows: That he came to his death abou
7 O'Clock this morning, by cutting hi
own throat with razor, found by hi
@ side.
Foreman: r. ]. Hendricks, w. I
Gardner, M. Pomeroy, F. H. Bryant
, L. M. Herren, 9. w. Gillian.
4 Dated this 10th day of November
1893.
THE REMAINS
4 are those of well-dressed workin
man about 25 years old, nearly six fee
, tall, light brown hair and moustacht
!. gray-blue eyes and fair complexion
, He wore blue wool shirt and wa
warmly dressed. The wound Is Gu
from the center of the throat jus
, above the Adams apple to the left 81
inches long, reaching almost to the ea
a, 1t was terrible cash, cutting cles
n through the winopipe, severing tn
muscles and blood vessels. The razC
must have been firmly held and pushe
! with great force.
=, A LETTER.
: A letter signed by name difterel
from o. Mitchell, was found on his pc
es sou. The letter has been car led n
time ana is partly obliterated, wor
no and dirty on the back. 1t is compose
10 In a Jagged, excitable hand, as follow
"a PORTLAND, Or, Nov, Is, 1898.
Friend VIM. Canning, Address (
Mary app Washin Hotel from 8
ut 10 p. M, and another place on 10;
Hawarden street, fr m t. lOp. m
and another place 1890 Bush stree
in from 10 to a. m,, having tn
place from the zSd. (Here follows
jlmble of half German and half Ell
, lish, that Is written indistinctly an
nnlntelligihlY. There il reference 70