New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-02-26
Fifty IDENTIFIED is BENJAMIN Low

THE MAN WHO WAS FOUND IN wEsT-ST WE'LL
TODD sIHPOWNEI OF GLOUCESTER
MAss.-Hls DEATH THOUGHT TO BE
DUE TO NATURAL CAUSES.
The body Of the gray haired. seafaring man who
was found dead at 7:2) O'Clock on Saturday evening
I'm front Of Pages Hotel. at 10. 30l West-st. has
been fully Identified that Of benjamin Low a
shipping merchant Of Gloucester. Mass. and man
of considerable means. The body was identified at
o'clock yesterday afternoon by Franklin Wood
ruff OF WoolruT's Stores. Brooklyn. and by cap
tain John T. Aiken, down East" Yankee skip
Dor Of Gloucester whose schooner. the Grayling Is
now coaling at Port Liberty. y. j. These two
who have known Mr.. Low long time met at
Kouncdy's Undertaking room. at 40. 2iO South
Fifth-ave The autopsy was made on the Dody al
that place.
The fun story Of the death of benjamin Low Is
not vet known According 70 the autopsy the i'm
mediate cause was congcstiye chill. inducing
heart failure. All the Internal organs were found
by Deputy Coroner Donn to be congested ana the
heart was found to b" particularly weak. Inc
skull which was unusually thick. had not been
fractured. when the body found blood was
flowing freely from a wound beginning on the up
per part Of the nose ana reaching INTO the SphIt
between the eyes. and II was for a time wrongly
supposed that the blow or fall which caused TINS
FRANKLIN Woodruff and other friends of the dead
man are disposed 10 think that MI Low was
robbed. and that perhaps h. came to his Geath Dy
foul play. Between $50 and O'Clock on SATURDAY
afternoon H. engaged room at the Cosmopolitan
Hotel without paying for II and without deposlthg
his valuables with the hotel clerk. About an hour
and half later his body was found, almost mile
away. "a search OF his person resulting IN the nild-
ing II only 81 g. No watch was attached 10 MS
watch chain. AMI one OF his trousers pockets was
partly pulled inside ont. But the police think that
these circumstances are not especially suspicious
They think that he struck his head on the iron
railing when he Tell. -, MI,
Mr.. Low came to New-York on the Fall River
boat on Friday night arriving on saturday morn
ing The business which called him TO TINS CITY
was the sale Of the cargo OF the l60-ton schooner
Maggie f. Mckenzie. togo ther with the appointing OF
a new captain OF the schooner and the collecting
OF certain sums of money due 10 him. Whlle the
cargo was being retailed by Edward Morris. the
Gloucester merchant appointed Samuel Hudder cap
tain OF the craft I'm place OF Captain Forrestel.
Gloucester. Mass. Feb. 2j.-The man found Gead
on the steps of a hotel In New-lork Is doubtless
BENJAMIN Low. OF this city lie left here on Thurs
day for New York 10 look after cargo or fsh
h. had aboard the schooner Maggie f. Mckenzie;
and after completing his business he was supposed
To have started for home. The first that was
known OF his death here was when the sunday
p1pers arrived His relatives started Immediately
- bring his remains home. Low carried on bust
ness for many wears. and was one OF the largest
and most successful fishing owners in this city.
owning and fitting ont thirteen vessels lie leaves
wife and two grown-up children.