The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-07-12
MURDERED-!
BY WHOM :?
&. H. BrunSOn Dies From Two Bullet
Mounds In Head and Breast.
HIS BODY In A FREIGHT CAR
Had Travelled the Country
as a Tinker Because
o.. of Misfortune.
INVESTIGATING THE CAUSE.

The police department has another
mystery to unravol. lis The murder Of a
white man supposed to De E. II. Brunson,
whose body was found in freight oar al
the West Yard Of the p. W. & b. Railroad
this morning with bullet holes in the right
temple and above the heart.
The railroad officials lerrncd OF the dis
covery Of tho body at 10 q clock from West
Yard trainmcn, whose duty IL Is to search
the cars. They report finding tho body in
d car of the Savannah line which had como
from Philadelphia during tho morning.
Tho corpie was lying near tho door, the
face downward. Near by was u: hand
satchel, q bundle OF umbrellas and an out
1T such as Is used by thinkers. Tho car
with he murdered body was backed to
the French street station, where the corpse
was removed to the dead room to await
Deputy Coroner Chandler. who arrived
shortly before IL o'clock and removed it to
his morgue where an investigation reveal.
cd the cause of death
Tho wound In the breast was directly
over tho heart and the weapon, which
must have been 2..calibre uns, had been
discharged SO close to the breast that the
flesh had boom burned. Blood from the
wound had soaked through The unfortu-
nate mans clothing, and together with
that which had oozed from The temple
wound. had saturated him.
Had it not been for both wounds tho au.
thorities would have concluded that death
had been produced by Brunson's own hand
buL as either shot would have produced
death, the man could not have inflicted
the second wound. No revolver was found
IN the car or about his person, and as no
money was inc uded in his belongings it is
almost lertan that tho man came to his
death at the hands Of some one whose pur-
pose was to obtain his money. however
little he possessed.
The crime was not committed IN the
West yard This the authorities are salts
fed Of beyond doubt. James Welsh q
eagman of the railroad company who
does duty at French street says no saw tho
body go through early this mcrning,
but supposing tho man was asleep said
nothing of The affair, This statement to-
gether with the fact that the body when
found gave every indication of having
| cen dead some time, is taken rs conclu.
siye evidence that the crime was commit.
ted somewhere out Of this stale. poss:blv
Philadelphia. And 50 the burden of the
mystery will fall upon tho authorities of
that city
Althou!h tho satchcl disclo,od articles
of wearing apparel, numerous not, bo,ks
aud such things as are required by men
who travel for IL living. there was notbing
which told where the ,rnd mans ho,no
was. o ne note book continual entries of
where he had stoppeu ON his travail. 1t
said Brun,on had lcftDetr,it Michiynn ON
juno n, since which timo be had b,ep in
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