The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-02-04
----------------------- --------- ----- G1IDEZ,S BODY FOUND.
Has Been Missing Twelve Weeks-His Death Due to an Accident so Says the Medical Examiner.

Death Due to an Accident so Says the Medical Examiner.
 The body of James Gaidez, the Hun
 garian who has been missing since No vember 9, 1895, was found Sunday in the Ansonia canal in the rear of Gard
 ner's shop. at the head gate leading to ! the flume The remains were discover cred by Mrs. Charles Johnson shortly after F o'clock, as she was coming over the footbridge on her return from church. Her husband went at once to
 the police station and informed Chief Ellis of the discovery Accompanied by Patrolman Nankervis they proceed ed to the spot, where quite crowd had gathered.
 1 It was believed by Johnson that the l remains were that of a boy as they 1 were short of stature, and the ap- pearance os the clothes made it look | like a boy. Chief Ellis knew there was no boy missing, and the first thought was that it was the body of Gaidez. 1 The body lay about three free from the shore, and it was drawn toward the embanRment, Chief Ellis going for Med- l ical Examiner Conklin, who was found | returning from church.
 | Upon his arrival he gave orders for
 it's removal, and Undertaken Kaiser of | the Ansonia Furniture Co.,, had the 1 body taken to the morgue. The re-
 mains were in good condition consider | ing the length of time the body has l been in the water, and there was no 1 trouble in lifting it from the canal. At l the morgue the remains were laid out,
 and it required an hours work in get l ting off the sand and dirt which had ac- cumulated on the different parts of the l head and body Medical Examiner
 Conkln made an examination, but
 withheld his finding until further in- vestigation is made, and it is probable l that a post mortem examination will 1 be held.
 | In the morgue, after the body had
 been cleaned up somewhat, it was iden- tified by Andrew Maruss and the man
 with whom he boarded. All the clothes
 remained on him but his hat, which
 was missing. and the hat picked up in | the canal on November 30 was no doubt
 his. The flesh was just beginning to l fall off his hands. In his pockets was
 $127 in silver and pennies. Nothing
 was discovered which would show that
 he met with foul play.
 l Medical Examiner ConlSlin question: l ed all the Hungarians interested very
 closely Jaszsak was sent for but he l was intoxicated and unable to talk. The l bank book and money were found at i his boarding house and were taken in
 charge by the medical examiner. The
 man had $44 in the Derby Savings bank
 and $32 at the boarding house. He WIS
 hard working man, so it is claimed, 1 being employed at the new Ansonia reservior, and the money that he sav-
 ed shows plainly that he could not be
 very dissipated.
 The finding of Gaidez has set the peo-
 pie talking again, many suspecting foul
 play The Hungarian people are firm 1 in their belief that Gaidez was foully
 dealth with
 Medical Examiner Conkln has pro-
 nounced Gaidezs death due to accident | al drowning. The funeral was held yesterday from the morgue at o'clock,
 interment being made in St. Mary's
 cemetery. Gaidez was. it is claimed a
 Roman Catholic. The medical exanlin-
 CT is still Investigating the case, hear- | ing the statements of all who knew the
 dead man, but it is believed that he
 met with no foul play The people of | that nationality are, as a rule. very aurrelsome over race and religious mat
 ters. nd while it may have been that 1 Gaidez and the others quarreled, they
 told a pretty straight story at the time.
 The right name of the man is Imrick Gajdosz, that name appearing on the bank book, although he was known
 among the Hungarians as Gaidez.