The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-04-01
HE IS IDENTIFIED
CORPSE FOUND IN The TRUNK IL
CHICAGO IS THAT OF PIKE

Such is the Declaration OF the Coroner's
Jury, Who Decide That the Relatives of
the Missing Oliver Pike are Entitled, as
Against the Friends of Prosper ChazaI
Both Identifications are Complete
How They All Know That They Were
Sure OF its Being Pike or ChazaI, as the
Case Might Be.
Chicago. March 3L-The body OF the
man found in box sold al auction in
this city last week has been identified
too much, and there are signs Of trouble
before the matter is finally adjusted.
The body has been positively identified
as that Of Oliver Pike OF Ohio, and il
has been identified as that Of Prosper
Chazal OF France. The coroper's jury
however, has decided in favor of the
Ohio man and made official decIara-
ton that the body is that of Oliver Pike
and none other.
William NJ. DoriOt, an uncle Of Pike,
was the first witness at the inquest to-
day. He said he had examined the
corpse in the county morgue and was
sure il was that Of his nephew, Oliver
Pike. one Of the teeth, he said, was
peculiarly shaped. 1t protruded be-
yond the others. The slender fingers
and thumbs he recognized. His neph-
CIV had square, broad shoulders like the
corpse. The hair, which was dark
brown, was the same. Oliver Pike had
small fat feet, and wore a number
shoe. He saw the deceased for the last
time six years ago al Fayette, Fulton
county, Ohio, his home. He left there
at that time for Steilacoom, Wash. The
last heard of Pike was July ?, 1892 when
he was working in a laundry in Seattle
and wrote that he was going into the
country to visit family named Jones.
Mr.. Doriot said his nephew had a her
MIA and wore truss, but on which side
Of the body the hernia was located he
could not tell.
HOW THEY ALL KNEW.
q know it is Pike he concluded, ''by
the hernia, the broad face, the high
cheek bones and the small fat feet.
identified him positively"
Mrs. a. T. Mosher, of this city, a cou-
sin of Oliver Pike. was the second wit
ness. She positively identified the
body as that of Pike. She knew her
cousin had a hernia and wore a truss
She knew him by the hernia, the broad
face, high cheek bones and small fiat
feet.
Bias Marcel of this city, Frenchman
then took the stand. He positively
identified the body as that of Prosper
Chazel. He knew il was ChaZal, be-
cause Chazal had a hernia and wore
truss. q know, too, il is ChazaL" he
said, '-by the hernia, the high cheek
bones, the fiat feet, the broad face and
large hands. Oh, IL is Chazal"
Henry Dever, another FTenchman,
came next He knew the body to be
that of Chazal. Il know it," he said,
"by the hernia, the broad face, the
high cheek bones and the fat feet. Cha
zal had broad shoulders too. So did
this man. This man was Chazal."
The friends of Pike declared that he
wore a No. 7 hat, the Frenchmen said
that Chazal wore a No. hat-and then
the jury took the case.
When the verdict was given turning
over the corpse to Mr.. Doriot as that
of Oliver Pike. the Frenchmen were full
of wrath. They declared over and
over that the body was that of Chazal
They left declaring that they would see
the French consul.
Mr.. Doriot viii take the body to Fay
cite, Ohio, for burial