Birmingham state herald., 1896-07-14
AN ENGLlSHNr.N BY BIRTH
And Steady, Indu ous Man He Was-His
 Only Wc ro.itrong Drink.
TWO vtRs'ONS AS TO HIS DEATH
The Man for w .uI m He Last Labored Had Used His SpSctacles Many Times. His Watch Found ina
 Pawn Shop.

The East Lake mystery Is a mystery no longer.
 The remains found by Josh Wilson, col- l ored, on the hillside north of Camp 1 LuclSie have been identified and the mys- tery surrounding his death cleared away. The man was T. H. Fellowtield, an l Englishman, and his death was either l caused by hemorrhages of the lungs or his light went out by the morphine l route.
 This decision was reached by jury of six men empaneled by Acting Coroner Leonard after hearing all the witnesses in the case and an identification of some of the effects found near the remains of the dead man.
 The Inquest.
 At o'clock yesterday afternoon Acting Coroner Leonard and the jurors, who with him on the Sth instant viewed what was left of the dead man, heard the fol- lowing testimony as to the finding of the remains, their condition and the identi- fication, and then rendered their verdict according to the light shed on the sub- ject.
 The Finding of the Body.
 Josh Wilson, the negro who found the remains, told of 1t in the following man. ner:
 My name Is Josh Wilson. Live at East Lake. Was coming toward the lake from home on Tuesday afternoon, July z, be- yond the camp grounds above the lake, and smelt horrible scent; went few feet further and heard dogs growing and fussing and saw a crowd of buzzards fly up. l stepped to one side to see what 1t was, thinking it might be one of my mothers hogs, and saw dog pulling at | the ribs of what looked to be a skeleton, and, on looking closer, saw pair of | shoes sticking up. This frightened me | very much. 1 then turned around and I went back to the road and went to MT. | Tarrant, justice of the peace at East l Lake, and told him what saw. He | gave me a note to take to the round | house to have telephoned to the sherin, | After that Mr. Rushton and several l others said they believed they would Sd
 and look at the body and told me to como | along. They got on the car, but being crippled, I missed 1t and walked. The | crowd got there ahead of me. Saw a | black hat badly mashed, some papers and pair of spectacles. Saw a flask. Saw one of the men take something like paper out of a pocket of what looked like a vest. Saw what looked like 0 light, whitish powder in the paper. Robert A. Morrs' Stat.ment. Following was the testimony of MT. Robert A. Morris:
 My name Is Robert A. Morris. I was going home on the evening of the 7th of July and a cyowd got on the dunn my at the East Lake round house. Said they were going to look at a dead man. Went with them and saw the body of a man in a state of decomposition. From about the waist up he was entirely eaten up and completely gone, except the ribs and backbone. The skull was laying off 4 or feet from the body. We made an examination of the surrounding grounds; found New York World dated June 2S and also pair of spectacles and cob pipe The stem was out of the pipe. Found also his necktie and bottle con- taining what we thought was whisky in 1t. Saw the rim of paper box common- ly used by druggists. It was about the size of a silver dollar. MT. Rushton pulled out from near the body what ap- peared to be vest, or 1t might have been an overall jacket, and in pocket | found a small paper envelope. Some one | said at the time, Here's lot of money" | or words to that effect. Told MT. Rush. | ton to take charge of what was found In | the pocket. It turned out to be an en- velope and was put back in the pocket and left there. A shirt was also found where the vest was. It was torn and bloody and hard to tell if 1t really was shirt, and hard to distinguish. Left the body and went about 30 feet to where he Is supposed to have died to large de- cayed log. We made very critical ex- animation of the ground between the log and small tree about feet away. There were some bushes there, the leaves of which were black, unnaturally 80. That is not the color they would have presented had they died. On one leaf we saw spot which looked sickening red. On the ground appeared what thought to be blood for a space of or 4 feet. On the opposite side of the log we found bone of one of the arms the meat being gone, with the exception of few shreds. He had on pair of con- gress shoes, broad, round-toed, about No. SM in good condition. His pants ap- n a black and leg split nearly half way down, and the oth- CT from a little below the knee to the foot. The cob pipe was filled with tobacco. which had never been lit, according to my idea. The cravat found was four in-hand, and being taken off seemed to have been torn loose. Found a black felt hat which was mashed and appeared to have been laid upon.
 Fred Perryman. MT. Fred Perryman. the next witness, said:
 My name is Fred Perryman Was at, the scene the next morning after the corpse was found. Saw man laying on his back, part of his legs naked and black. Had on a pair of congress sewed shoes, about a No. 9. Had on pair of wool pants to my best judgment. Some rags lying around near the corpse. If there was a coat couldn't tell Beard was very gray and what took to be hisl hair was dark. Saw bottle with very small quantity of liquor and some pa- pers near the corpse.
 J. l.. Lavender.
 The following was the statement of J. l.. Lavender:
 My name Is J. l.. Lavender. A crowd of us went over to where the corpse was found. Saw a man about one-half eaten up by something We went to hunting around to see what could be found. Saw hat lying near the corpse, some papers and pint flask. Mir. Bob Morris took the papers and tore off the date from
 them. A pair of glasses and a cob pipe