The Portland daily press., 1898-05-10

dered man did not belong in Portland.
t1e was undoubtedly stranger here and
IN all probability tramp. who was
"aAAihs ihCo or out of Portland on the
drano trunk railroad Turnkey Emery
at the Portland police station, who sees
about every tramp swho comes into Port
land and applies at the police station for
lodging, had never seen the murdered man
and no one conld be found about 4be no.
lice station who had It is possible that
some OF the Lewiston police may know
him and an attempt will be made to
identify him in this way by means of
photographs.
Coroner Perry was called into the case
and the body was removed to the under
taking rooms of S. S. Rich & Son, where
1t now is DIR. King made the post
mortem examination and extracted the
bullet.
The mans description is as follows:
Between 80 and IS years of age, about 6
feet inches tall, and weighed about l65
pounds; of athletic build, with muscular
arms, small hands, evidently those of a
| laboring man and small feet; features
| regular, smooth shaven. undoubtedly
clearly shaved on Saturday; light blue
eyes, hair long and thick and streaked
with gray.
The man wore black cotton shirt
with white stripes and black four-in-
hand cravat. His trousers We're brown
with black check. He wore a box coat
or REFER of black diagonal goods with a
| vest of the same material His hat was
a black derby anc although he was COM
! fortably dressed, the clothes had been
worn some time and were threcd-bare and
soiled.
In his pockets nothing was found
which will aid much IN establishing his
identity. In his vest pockets was a small
lead backed pocket mirror, about as large
AS silver dollar or perhaps, trifle larg-
er. The glass of this was cracked in sew
eral places. A pocket comb in black
paste board case and a small piece of to-
bacco. A copy of the Boston Journal of
May 9Th was also found in the mans
pocket. There were also a few black
buttons strung together on a string. Not
cent Of money nor a letter nor any
other article was to be discovered about
the mans clothes.
There was one thing about the man
which may lead to his identification if
his description ever meets the eye of any
one who knew him. On his. forearm was
device tattooed in red and blue ink,
such as often found on the person of sea-
faring men. This device was good
piece of work and was evidently done by
some man who understood the business. :
The device was that of heart behind
which was sun burst, and across the
centre of which were two gauntletted
right hands clasped. Below these was
smaller heart. This was the only mark
on the mans body.
MANY THEORIES. gE-
There are many theories advanced in
regard to the mysterious case but they
are only theories 1t is thought possible
that the dead man may have been one of
a gang of tramps and got into fight
with them on the railroad track near
in the melee. He may have been shot and
robbed. but as his clothes were not dis
arranged in any way and as he did not
dress or look like a man who possessed
much money there is very little stock
taken in this story.
iC %lo+ tbo
may have been one of a pair Of hard char
acters who have been working all kinds
Of games about this part of the state for
the last few weeks. Some think, as he
answered the description of one of the
two men who held up the s5 men in the
office of the West End hotel on last Thurs.
day night, that he might have been one
of these desperadoes. On Wednesday
night before the West End hold up, on
Thursday, two tramps slept in a barn
in Biddeford, and when they went away
forgot their revolver. The farmers boy
hunting around the hay NOW found some
38-calibre cartridges and little later in
the morning the tramps came back to
the farmers house and asked if they
might have the revolver they had left in
the barn. They got it and went away.
One of these tramps might have been
the small man who was shot Sunday
night in East Deering with 3S-calibre
revolver and the weapon which did the
work might have been the revolver found
in the hay NOW in Biddeford. These
are only guesses, however. 1t is very
mysterious case and one which will take
many weeks of hard work to solve.
ECLECTIC MEDICAL SOCIETY.
The SD annual meeting of the Eclectic
Medical society of Maine will be held at
the Preble house, Tuesday and Wednes-