The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-08-24

sad as well as mysterious one. Had
the young man applied for assistance
of the proper officers he could I'M
doubtedly have been helped. That he
should take his life while in the full
possession of his reason does not seem
possible, yet nothing indicates that he
did not do so or that he drank any. In
fact, it appears that he had contem-
plated the deed for some time, as he
was seen to have the rope on Saturday.
A DESCRIPTION.
The following complete description
is given, in the hope that someone up
on reading it may be able to identify
the dead man. He was five feet seven
inches high, and weighed 135 to 40
pounds, and was thirty to thirty-fve
years old. The remains were clothed
in blue shirt with five white stripes,
black coat, light colored vest, blue
overalls nearly new, light coloced
under pants of wooden goods burned
at the bottom of each leg, nearly new
leather boots, white broad brimmed
felt hat bound with cord.
In the pockets were found the fol-
lowing articles: Two red colored cot
ton handkerchiefs, an old brass
watch chain, an open faced, stem
winding, nickel watch with a broken
crystal, piece of leather strap, peck
ct knife, small leather purse contain
ing two cents.
The cheeks are sunken as though by
hunger or disease, the ears large and
standing out, hands sun burned and
callOused. The man was naturally
somewhat dark compleXioned, though
that was not marked characteristic.
He was much sunburned had gray
eyes, a short broWnish beard, mustache
with reddish tinge, dark brown hair,
thin on top and rather long and thin
behind. He was of spare build. Dr.
JacOby made an examination of the
body, and found these peculiarities of
the teeth: The left upper canine and
the first molar are broken off as tho
by decay, and the second molar on the
lower right side is missing. The body
will be left at the undertaking rooms
of John Klein & Co. until tomorrow
afternoon for purposes of identifica-
tiOn.
THE INQUEST
Coroner Shoemaker summoned the
following jury to hold an inquest over
the remains: G. w. Brown, e. r.
Kennedy, E. S. Austin, O. p. Lei
berg. G. M. Johnston and Z. Paddock.
The inquest was begun at ten
O'Clock in the undertaking room of
John Klein & Co., J. A. Flittie repre-
senting the county, and II. W. Brown
acting as clerk.
Oscar Miller was sworn and said that
the first he had seen of the deceas-
ed was at $50 o'clock this morning.
He was hanging on the limb of a tree,
the limb being fifteen feet from the
ground, and his feet seven or eight
from the ground. His hat was on his
head. There was no ladder. A rain
coat was lying at the bottom of the
tree. There was drop of about four
feet between his neck and the limb.
Albert Cratch, who clerks for p. X.
Wiser, testified that he saw the de-
ceased last Saturday, in the store, at
HOO a. m. He asked to pawn his
watch, and l told him that / could
not let him have any money on it. 1t
had cracked crystal, and is the one
here presented He turned around
and said that these were awful hard
times, and that he could not get any
work, and then he walked off. / saw
the same kind of rope in his pocket
as he hung himself with. Did not
see rain coat. He was dressed as he
lies here. He seemed to be pale look
ing and not very healthy, and seemed
quite sad. The watch is numbered q
329, 322, and is made by l. B. Cham
bers & Co., Chicago, and is Waltham
movement. 1t is a stem winder
screw case, open faced, nickel. He
did not ask any particular amount of
money, but simply wanted to pawn it,
Charles Smith testified that he dis
covered the body of the deceased this
morning. The hat was on. The
rope was tied in slip loop around his
neck. This was few moments after
six o'clock, and l reported to Officer
circuit. l live near by, but saw or
heard no one there earlier in the
morning. There were people there
yesterday afternoon, but don't know
whether the deceased was there. At
three or four o'clock this morning the
dog made terrible racket, but as he
does that whenever the horses kick in
the barn, | did not pay any attention
to it.
e. Mycue testified that he lives on
Seventh street in the First ward The
deceased was at my house Saturday
noon and wanted a drink. | asked
him to wait and have something to