The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-02-16
CORPSE IN A NET.
wu.r Is THOUGHT TO BE a. y.
HoFFaASs BODY Found.
Hartman Wa. with Peter English Ia
= noHx THAT Was sank by the
weight Of a stolen Chain-''Atce-
nofssu,w the Verdict OF the Core
ner'. Jury fn the case al eeorxe
n TmIlman's snaden Death.

ce-ons~ xandea was called 10 Ballard
YESTERDAY morning % view corpse LA&t
RAJ baeu Stirred Up sEom is 5v@ n Sal
rsoa bay sy IAs 2sgss wind Sunday ni8hL
and Deposited n nsaeEm2As Ess-
When las eorCnsE Te4ensa [1s sce1s OF
tAe dgscoysyy ne found the body OF a man
securely anchored - means OF rope t4ed
arp.na his lezs. X Ess one OF those eases
thar - kF,s,gu n coroner work a. De g
.4lou3. 80 .oaa thai only those who we're
srr n@lles Nv tnrv went anywhere rear IT,
FYsa ana CRABS rad hSld high carnival
with the body ard bead The lower .aw
lad dro2Ded OK ard TAG ass1lsss head was
a harrtals sigas 10 lo0k upon Adentii.cA-
ton was o8s Of lie question, except oy
mean OF me clothes, watch were black
The-s wra, not az article OF any kind in
the pockets. On the feet were pair o;
heavy laced shcss. Underneath the vest
was a blue flannel shit
srnere 81 10 question that thu body IS
that OF A J. Holman, who was drowned
on the night OF January while escaping
with stolen goods from Aennigsrs ship
yard What makes the identification al
raozt positive Is hat the body was found
within forty feet OF the spot where The
body OF Peter English. Hoffman's conrade
il crime. As vel as in death, Was hooked
az The last body vas found between II
and = O'clock last sunday night ~ joan
johnson ESiu. He and mis- son were sein-
inx for fish They drew IN carefully, an
tIclpatinx a rich haul from the weight
IL the na. To their surprise and the boys
great horror they got nothing but ina
BODY. Hin thought that IL was that Of
HOFFMAN. and towsd Il ashore. after tying
a rope around is legs. some people
might think that 81 was an easy matter
70 handle such corpse. but one actual
experience VIII demonstrate TO them that
the reality Is FAR different.
VIVA, was left Of the body was taken 20
Rutterworth's undertaking rooms. at
which place an effort viii be made to Sc
cure positive Identification. 1t Is thought
that Robert DuPee, bootblack, or Alfred
Proctor, who Was acquainted with Hofr-
man, may be able 20 supply the missing
link. DuPes and English owned a rick6ty
Old sloop, ~ which English and Hoffman
and Proctor took a cruis n the ear
~ part OF January. DuPee did
not 10 along because he was
afraid tho craft might sink. Friday
night, January s. English and his COM
panions were anchored at Salmon bay.
near the sealing schooner Ella Johnson.
During the evening Gus Johnson's house
caught FIRE and the populace turned out
en- masSe TO see the sight. English and
Hoffman and Proctor went ashore In
sIeve-llke skin TO see what was going on.
According 10 Proctor's story, when they
started back 10 the sloop he quit his COM
pantons and started for Seattle. He said
that he heard cry from the water. Other
people also gave c0rroborattve evidence OF
this statement The next morning Eng
Lshs body was found in the water by
means OF q graphing iron Hoffman's
body was not located. The skif was found
at the bottom OF the bay and subsequent
s,fa
Hennigsr's shtpyard had sunk the skin
Nothing Is known Of Hoffman's life other
wise than that he come here from San
Francisco.
George T.. Taliman's Death.
The coroner's jury that investigated the
circumstances surrounding the death OF
George L. TaIlman yesterday morning at
Butterworth's undertaking rooms returned
verdict Of probable cause Of death, alco-
ho.ism."
The evidence did not develop more facts
than were given In the Post-IntelAgencer
yesterday morning except Ia the direction
OF the amount OF whisky that Tallman
drank during the last three or four days
OF his life. He drank a great deal, and the
condition OF his stomach. intestines and
brain was Of a nature easily explained by
a habltual use OF whisky. The jury was
made Up 50 follows: J. y. Gilmer, George
+. Gardner. Alex Reddeil, 5. L. Howard,
J. p. Johnson and J. h. Lynch.
Il am satisfied" said Coroner Yandell
yesterday afternoon, that TaIlman died
Of natural causes, but / feel that I did
right IN holding an autopsy and inquest.
! believe that when a mysterious death
occurs in q house OF Questionable reputa-
ton Ia notorious part OF the city. IL is
best 70 have a thorough investigation"
lis Il always possible TO ascertain def
nltely the cause OF deatb?' asked the re-
porter.
NO. Il is not" replied the coroner. II
know OF an instance where twenty sur
geous ala their best TO solve the cause OF a
sudden death, and could not arrive at a
definite conclusion. You can theorize, and
probably reach a correct conclusion, but
yet you are not absolutely certain. Once
during the war ! was connected with a
hospital In that hospital was a young
colored man. ] think he was the finest
specimen % 4 man ever saw. He was six
feet tall. perfectly proportional. and had
neTer had al ache or pain IN his life. Just
before dinner l was talking with him, and
he made the statement 10 me that he did
uot know what Il was 10 be sick. and that
his master had not spent cent on him for
medicine. eft him. and within a minute
was called back only 20 find him stretched
on the noor dead. Some OF those who saw
that he guessed he would go and get his
dinner. Suddenly he stretched out his arms
and fell 20 the floor. Every surgeon con-
necte1 with the hospital was called, and
the autopsy failed 10 give tho slightest cue
% the cause OF death. We believed that he
was attacked By neuralgia OF the heart,
bait only a thNerv