The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-11-29
WEDGED IN BETWEEN ROCKS
UNKNOWN BODY FOUND ON THE BEREAVEMENT YESTERDAY.

Remains Were Naked and Badly Deccm-
 posed-Head Firmly Held Between Two
 Huge Rocks-No ClGe to the Identity of
 the Drowned Man.
 About o'clock yesterday afternoon the body of an unknown man was found on the new 'breakwater near the new light by Arthur H. Ferris of First avenue, West Haven. The finding of the body was reported to the police about o'clock and Medical Examiner White and Coroner Mix notified, but owing to the position of the body and the lateness of the hour nothing could be done in the case last evening.
 Ferris was out in boat in the har- bor ducking off the north side of the breakwater When about half way across to the old lighthouse he noticed a human body apparently fastened be- tween two huge pieces of rock. He immediately rowed to the place and dis covered that the body was that of a man with his head down in the water and firmly held between the rocks, and his back exposed The remains were nearly naked, only the remains of what appeared to have once been a shirt be- ing tightly wrapped about his necks where it had apparently been washed by the waves.
 The body was in a disgusting states decomposition having already conn., menced and the flesh had begun to fall from the lower limbs and the calloused skln from the bottom of one of the feet had adhered to the rocks leaving upon them the full impression of the foot. The spectacle was a most ghastly one. and as Ferris expressed it. q found the body, but lost my Thanksgiving din- ner, as the sight made me so sick at my stomach that I did not care to eat any dinner.''
 Ferris after discovering the body im-s mediately came ashore and reported the facts to Sergeant Mcbride at police headquarters. Medical Examiner White was notified and he in turn reported the finding to Coroner Mix As it was then too dark to make any attempt to se- cure the body last night, and as it was fastened so firmly that there was prac- tically no danger of it being washed away, it was decided to do nothing in the case last night, but arrangements were made with Mr. Ferris to secure the body to-day as soon as the tide would permit of the body being remov- ed Ferris was unable to secure it yes- terday, as it was so tightly wedged be- tween the rocks that he was unable alone to extricate it and there was no one In the boat to help him.
 Ferris will this morning take soms men with him to the scene and will se- cure the body and take it to Lighthouse Point. It is believed that the body was washed up on the breakwater at some unusually high tide and the head be- came wedged in the rocks, and when 1 the tide receded remained there. The remains had the appearance of having time.
 At first 1t was thought that the body might be that of one of the men who were drowned near Branford several weeks ago and the relatives of Engin- ger Hinckley and Arthur Tymeson were notified of the finding of the body by the medical examiner Owing to the I fact, however that the remains Wer0 naked 1t is not believed that the body is that of either, but on the other hand the impression last night prevailed that it was much more likely to be the body of the unknown man who recently jumped off one of the Fall River line steamers when the steamer was pass ing New Haven laaTbor.