The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-05-11

| Kennedy's Mother saw ACCOUNT VI Muruef
in Boston Paper and by Description of
Dead Man Though 1t Was Her Son-Re1-
atives will Come Here to More Fully
Establish His Indentity-First Step
Taken to Solve the Mysterious Case.
The man murdered in East Deering on
last Sunday night has been identified as
Daniel B. Kennedy of Lynn. AT an ear.
" hour this morning, Deputy Sterling
received letter from City Marshal
Thomas NJ Burkes of Lynn, enclosing a
photograph of this man, and the police
are sure that this is the man whose body
now lies in Richs undertaking rooms
awaiting Identification.
| Kennedy's mother saw an account in
the Boston paper Of the man whose body
was found in East Deering, and from tho
description of the murdered man and
the clothing he had on at the time is sure
that the body Is that of her son, who was
last heard of three months ago when he
was in Portland. The picture was taken
in 1898 when Kennedy was % years old
This would make the man about 2S, and
the murdered man may have been about
this age.
| Kennedy's mother informed the Lynn
police that her son had tattoo marks on
his left forearm similar to the marks
found on the forearm of the murdered
man and beside this he had slight scar
on the lower lip, caused by cancer
L.
Deputy Marshal Sterling says that the
picture is undoubtedly that of the muir.
dered man taken some years ago and he
considers the Identification complete.
Il The mans mother or other relatives
will be cent to Portland today by the
Lynn authorities and the Identification
more fully established.
i. The mans Identification being estab.
lished the next thing for the police to do
will be to find the mans associates here
, in Portland, and to locate the person or
persons hs was with on last Sunday
when he met his death. This will bs no
easy task, but the first step having
been taken it will probably be only a
matter of few days before more is dis
i covered about this mysterious case.
All day long yesterday q long string of
people passed in and out of Rich UNDER
taking parlors to gaze ON the features of
the man.
Coroner Perry empannelled jury, con-
sisting of Hanson S. Clay, Albert G.
Bragg, James N. Read, Chauncey r.
Berry, Lewis Sawyer and Nathan Dyer.
The jury viewed the body and adjourned
until May "a, when some kind of evil
denoe may be available.
A man who viewed the remains ysster-
day gave 1t as his impression that the
dead man had served term in Portland
Jail the past winter. This matter will be
Investigated.
/ The impression seems to prevail that
the man was tramp and not unlikely
had served term in Jail, and that he
knew something about his comrades that
they were afraid he might give away and
they seized this opportunity to get rid of
him.
Thomas A. Cakes, draw tender at the
Grand Trunk bridge, yesterday Identified
the body of the murdered man as that of
a man he saw on the Grand Trunk bridge
Sunday morning about nine O'Clock in
company with two other men. Mr.. Cakes
says that Sunday evening three men
crossed the draw, and that just before
nine O'Clock two others crossed, and that
after they had had time to pass East Deer
ing he heard the shots. Later two men
came back in the direction of the city. He
thinks that they returned and crossed the
bridge about ten minutes after the shots.
DR.. Alfred King is quite confident that
the dead man has been in the city some
time, and that he has bean to his office
twice or more, but he cannot place the
times or the troubles that he suffered
from.