The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-08-17
DOES IT AUGUR A TRAGEDY?
MYSTERIOUS CLOTHING FOUND ON
 KIMBERLY AVENUE.

CLOTHING FOUND ON
 KIMBERLY AVENUE. Dog Barked ominously All Saturday
 Night-Coat aud Hat Found on Manure Pile-Another Garment in Locked-Up
 Barn-No Trace of the wearer of the
 Clothes.
 The police of Howard avenue precinct have a case on their hands that is very mystifying to them. It apparently is a case that would vie with almost any plot of the dime-novel detective stories in interest. Nobody saw anybody else, and yet there is evidence that some body was at Thomas J. Farley's barn last Saturday night. The evidence. however, is of such a nature that noth- ing but conjecture, and that of the most tantalizing sort, too, can be made out of it. The police are working on the supposition that a crazy man, or one temporarily so, is responsible for the mystery.
 If, however, the man in the case were crazy, how came it that he left behind him all but just enough to determine his name and address? In one aspect it appears like practical joks, and yet it might have proved a fatal joke for the joker. As the case is very young yet it may be that day Or two will bring in notification that a man has mysteriously disappeared. But if he has disappeared, the police ask, Has he gone in his undergarments?' If so. he would surely have been taken in. And if foul play has resulted to some man, the perpetrators were bunglers, indeed, to leave so much damaging evi- dence behind them.
 The facts in possession of the police at this stage of the investigation are these: Thomas J. Farley of 79 Kimber- ly avenue came to the Howard avenue police station yesterday afternoon, bringing a bundle of clothing that he had found on his premises. The cloth ing gave no evidence of anything eX- traordinary. Farley keeps a dog in his barn at the rear of his premises, and said dog was barking loud and long
 
 last.
 Early Sunday morning Farley went out as usual to look after his horse, and was surprised to find his dog in the yard and not in the barn where he had locked him up'the night before. More over, the small window out of which Farley pitches the manure from the stable, and which is always closed at night, was wide open. That window is not nearly big enough for man to crawl through, and yet there was evil dently no other means of entrance. On the manure pile under the window lay a black derby hat, size ', bearing the name "Friend E. Brooks" stamped on the sweat-band; a black diagonal coat with the makers hall mark, "C. R. Mc- Cormick & Co.,, Knoxville, Tenn" On the sleeve lining of the coat, extending from the elbow to the shoulder, was stamped in large letters Central States Dispatch, via New Britain" Nothing was found in the pockets except large red handkerchief.
 Farley was startled at these evil dences of arn-breaking. and, unlock ing the door, entered very cautiously. There was nobody in sight The man he had expected to find asleep in the barn was not visible, nor did a thor ough search high and low reveal any man.
 Farley found additional clothing; in fact, enough to complete the suit of clothes. He found a pair of trousers on the floor of the same cut and goods as the coat, and the contents of bar rel-rags and old waste-had been dumped into stall, and the horse had been stamping on them all night ap- parently. The puzzled householder be- gan to suspect that the barrel had been emptied to be filled with his goods, but a search revealed nothing missing, and he therefore went to the police to help him find an explanation. He wanted to know how the man could get in through that small window while a watch dog was in the barn. He wants to know the mans object in breaking in, and, above all, why he left a good suit of clothes there.
 The police want to know if wild. crazy man, in a nude state, is hiding in the swamps or groves along West river, and who he is. They scout the suicide theory as yet for no one is known to be missing in that neighbor-