The morning times., 1896-08-26
Body Found at Great Falls
Not Yet Identified.
LOOKS LIKE FOUL PLAY
Pool Where It was Found Too Shall
low for Accident .'or Sutcfde-De-
IMPOSITION Has Defaced the Itc-
mains and No CIew Found on the
Clothing Watch Marked M. G. W."

ner's jury yesterday OEen the-body OF
young man found near Great Falls, and
not one iota of evidence vas adduced to
explain his fate. Neither was 1t possible
10 secure q clew as TO his identity.
The case is mystery and bids fair to
remain one, for the advanced, stage OF
decomposition renders the body itself use
less as a basis to- work from:
The theory that he was bicyclist has
been found to be grouudless. silver
watch with the initials N. C. ". engraved
on the outside of the case, solpe, car tickets.
a night key and n package OF cigarette
paper were all that was found on the body.
The place where the body was found
floating is not over 100 yards from the
Great Falls Club House and within twenty
feet are number Of boats, WHICH have
been in daily use during the season. The
water consists Of stagBant pools, which
the high water following rain leaves OH
the flats, and in any place it 10 hardly
over four feet deep. Thomas jackson.
the father of a. ]. jackson, the proprietor
of the hotel at Great Falls, went out on
the rocky proInontory yesterday morning
in order to get 4 good place to fish.
FOUND THE BODY.
He pushed aside the bushes when he was
startled to see a mans body floating on
The surface OF the water. The people at
the hotel were notified and a messenger
was sent for Deputy Sheriff William, X.
Embrey and Squire Luther n. Offutt
When these Officials arrived boat was
procured and the body reached. 1t lay
face downward and when turned over it
was discovered that the flesh on the face
and the nose had disappeared. The body
was in an advanced state OF deconposi-
ton and recognition by means OF the
features was Impossible ..5-'
The body had evidently been in the water
for over a week, and from the fact that
j hand was found entangied in the bushes
nearby, it would seem that II had lain
in this particular place all that time.
1t was Impossible to tell il the remains
were those OF a white man or not, but
as the hair is perfectly straight the Of
ticials were inclined to believe that the
unfortunate was white. When the trousers
leg was rolled mp small portion OF white
flesh Still remaining confirmed them in
this opinion. The body lay wedsed in
between two pieces OF rock.
s. ". Bissett, who is in business atGreat
days ago. and when he returned stated that
he had noticed a disaSreeabie odOr, and
asked IL any OF the guests at the hotel
had not complained OF it.. They had not
and no attention was paid to the fact at
the time. Ht H..-. '--'' --
LEFT IN THE WATER. .-
1t was impossible to remove the body
from the water without having it fall to
pieces, ana, as what little remaining
means there were of identifying the body
by marks and features would thus be de-
stroyed. Deputy Sheriff Embrey decided
N allow it 10 remain where it was until
this morning
III no one claims the remains they will be
Inferred today by the Mon eomery author
lies. The body is now being watched
and, as no casket could be obtained at the
place. plain wooden coffin is being male
oy carpenter and will be really this morn
.ng. The deputy sheriff cot the pockets
Of the mans clothes and removed every
article, in the hope ofootaininga ciew which
would aid in establishing the identity
\ watch Of Waltham make, in d silver
case, bearing on the outside the initials
M. c. W. four tickets emitting one TO
-Ide on the Tenleytown line, two Capital
Traction Company tickets ana a latch key
were found OH his person. A pUlpy mass
which turned out to be a package o;cigar-
cite paper. was afterward brought to
light. On log near by was a COPY OF a
newspaper dated August 8. Besides these
articles nothing was discovered. There
were no letters nor money on him
A jury was impanelled by Deputy Sheriff
ISti Of fAll v-in
Foreman Ernest Wheatiey, Harry Morgal.
Levi Hill, James Bodine, Thomas Bodine
Arty Fisher, E. G.. Fisher, Alexander Hill,
Richard Anderson, Thomas Jackson, Val
Collier and william T. Lynch All the
evidence in the case was heard aDd then
the jury brought in a verdict that the man
came to his death by drowning.
WAS WELL DRESSED.
The man wore a checked suit OF wooden
texture. light in color and weight. No hat
or vest WAS found and the coat was buttoned
up. The shirtwasstriped and ofthe negligee D..
type with a necktie of the same material.
He ad on pair of russet shoes and his foot
was very small for man and well shaped.
The underclothinC was OF netting, while a
sweater-like jacket was worn next to the
skin. He was on the whole very neatly
dressed, but no tags or trade tickets ap-
peared on the clothing.
Inquiry at the hotel disclosed the fact
that no one remembered having seen a man
answering to the description in the neigh
borhood. Since the body has evidently
been in the water for ten days or more and
in the place where IL was found for week
at least, the man may have been at Great
Falls, and the persons who saw him there
now fail to recall him or recognize the
deconiposed remains, The theory that the
body had floated in from the river was at
first entertained, but after ar examination
of the water, through which many jagged
rocks protruded. and the perfect order OF
the clothing, Deputy Sheriff Enibrey gave
1t as his opinion that the deceased met his
death at the very point where the body was
found - .,. .4.
The fact that the water is SO shallow
here that one would have great difficulty
in drowning himself IL he tried, and that
deeper and more accessible points would
be within easy reach OF one who enter
taiDed the idea Of suicide, has brought the
majority of the people Of Great Falls, who
viewed the body and are familiar with
the case as thus far developed, to the con-
clusion that the man was murdered and
bis body thrown into the water --1 -
LOOKS LIKE MURDER.
The state OF the remains rendered an ex-
animation impossible, for whatever marks
Of violence which might have been on the
body, would be unable to be dctecteo when
the flesh has undergone such degree OF