The Portland daily press., 1894-10-17
u IuIfys
s. CHAS. A. MARSH,
8ss Main street. Worcester. Mass

Mr.. Mayberry, referred to by Mr.. Marsh
in his letter, was not present when the
bones were found, but arrived on the scene
shortly after. The skeleton was found by
some men who wele digging for the founda-
tion of stone wall, between two lots.
When Mr.. May berry reached the men they
had just found thex xremains. but even in
that short time had greatly disturbed them.
The remains rested ina shallow grave,
close by what MIR. Mayberry thinks was
once high board fence. In his opinion the
skeleton was that of tallish man, well
proportional. Some OF the teeth were miss
ing. as Mr.. Mayberry recalls it from the up
per jaw, and in that particular the recol-
lection of another man who saw the skull
agrees with him. At the time the physician
who examined the kull, and who noticed
marks of saw. had the skull, his attention
was called to the missing teeth. and it was
suggested that this Indicated more than
middle life, butshe said it was impossible to
tell whether the teeth were removed before
or aftel death.
Mr.. Mayberry took some of the best pre-
served of the bones and examined them.
Of course he does not claim to have made
very close examination of the remains. He
1oluOfCo LILO bAttlls oub ldtcI On lolL IL
where it was found as described in the
PRESS at the time.
Mr.. May berry is not inclined to take much
stock in the medical student theory He
says that as he recalls it, the space where
the body was found once enclosed by
high fence. and in mis- judgment medical
students could have had but little chance
to have buried body there. This view of
the case is somewhat strengthened by the
recollection Of well known s.uptowner''
who says that in 1890, ,atthe point Indicated
by Mr.. May berry. as sAs place where the
skeleton was fouHdt tfasre was only a drive
way. but. that was eneyosed as Mr.. May berry
says was the case.
Mr.. Mayberrry.is also inclined to doubt
the medical student theory, because he be-
lieves that had. d.students taken the body to
the place where it was found. they would
never have made the temporary grave if
such they designed it to be. as shallow as
was the case in this instance. Then the
remains indicated that the body must have
been hastily thrust into the grave. The
head was lower than the feet. and at the
best the body was not over eighteen inches
below the SUI face. 1t is queer case, and
made all the more complicated by the letter
MI. Marsh sent to Marshal Trickey. The
disappearance of Mr.. Marsh, ST., in 1870,
does not seem to have created much of
attention at the time. Deputy Sterling.
who was then as now, one of the deputy
marshals, and whose recollection of.special
events of the sort is commonly very clear,
IS una BILE to recall the search made for him.
Of course, as Mr.. Mayberry said yesterday,
it is possible that even if the body was that
of Mr.. Marsh, it might have been in the
hands of medical students, but it is also
possible Mr. Mayberry said, that granting
that Mr.. Marsh was murdered, the body
might have been mutilateI, after the man
ner of Sawtelle's treatment of the body of
his brother. Marshal Trickey will communi-
cate all the facts in the case TO Mr. Marsh,
and further letters from that gentleman
will be looked for with interest. Should
Mrs. Marsh be able to describe the exact
teeth her husband had lost, and the de-
scription should be found to correspond
with the conditi IN of the skull, there might
seem to be at least shadow of possibility
that the long lost man had been found not
to have deserted mis- family, but to have
died at the hands of some assassin.