The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-03-13


suicide of the man supposed now to be
T. s. Weber, who was found dying In
an East Third street doorway last
Wednesday morning, was only deepen
ed by yesterdays developments in the
case. In company with Chief Of De-
tectives Schweitzer and Detective
Campbell, two women who were sup
posed to be- able to identify the body
visited the county morgue, but upon
viewing the remains stated that the
were looking for.
Notwithstanding their statements.
the officers now at work on the case
are strongly inclined to the belief that
the man they have been looking for is
the suicide The women, whose names
are withheld, in conversing with the
detectives before visiting the morgue,
spoke of a scar on the right hand be-
low the thumb, as a means Of identi-
fication. A photograph was also fur
niShed, taken a year ago. Upon inves-
tigating the marks on the body at the
morgue a scar exactly corresponding
to the one mentioned was found. Fur
thermore, the photograph bears
striking resemblance to the dead man,
the contour Of the chin, color Of hair,
shape of mouth, formation Of the lobes
of the ears and even the peculiar curl
of the hair indicate that If the body is
not that of the man wanted, at least
the resemblance is something almost
phenomenal. To the smallest detail
which the women were able to give
the similarity continues. The only
feature leading them to declare that
they could not identify the body is
that the forehead has a greater prom
inence than that Of the man in the
picture. This is accounted for from
the fact that the body has lain in the
morgue since Thursday and that the
changes natural in such a case often
make recognition difficult.
The parties who. visited the morgue
are not relatives of the dead man. but
friends of a relative who are acting in
behalf Of the family of the deceased
Their information was necessarily in
complete, and steps have been taken
to secure additional facts, the detec-
tiveS hoping in this way to clearly eS-
tablish that mistake was made by
the women and that the body is that
of the man wanted. 1t was stated yes
terday that the man for whom the
women are looking was well educated,
CT a refined family and man who in
his early life was possessed of unusual
advantages, facts which the appear
ance of the corpse fully bears out. He
was also a man of wealth, forced to
his rash act, it is feared, through fam
lily troubles and domestic difficulties of
an unusual nature.
Chief Schweitzer states that the be-
lief that the corpse is that Of the man
wanted has grown upon him since the
first inquiries were made, even in the
face of the refusal of the women who
visited the mOrgue to believe it, So
confident were the detective force that
yesterdays visit would completely iden-
tify the body that work on the case
was partially suspended, and now that
the identification Is not complete they
are almost as much at sea as when
the first clue was exhausted.
There still remain several ways by
which solution Of the mystery may
be arrived at. An examination of the
overcoat belonging to the man. left at
the Merchants hotel, revealed a max
ers mark bearing the name of a.
Rochester. N. Y, firm Stein & Block.
The shoes worn by the suicide bear the
retailers mark. e. Anan & Son. a SUD-
posed Chicago firm. The stock and
serial numbers have been taken and
by inquiry from the firm, the store
from which they were sold car be cas-
lily located and the date Of the sale de-
termlned. 1t is also thought that the
oVercoat makers can furnish q clue
Additional information from Milwa1
kee. where a grip containing toilet ar
tlcies and linen supposed to belong to
the suicide is being held by the an.
thorities, Is expected this evening
Chief Jansen, of Milwaukee. ia still
working on the case and making I'm
usual efforts to trace his clues. The
local detective force is using the infor-
nation gathered yesterday and will ex-
haust every resource in an endeavor
TO prove theaidentity Of the body. and
mere are reasonable grounds to hope
for speedy solution of the mvster1y