The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-10-26

Iell into the water. 1t viii be remem-
bered that only six cents were>found IN
the mans pocket and that his watch was
missing although his chain remained
There were no bruises or other signs OF
violence on the mans person to show
that he had met with foul play and 1t
would be absurd to believe that the man
had been robbed or foully dealt with
when he had-six cents in his pocket and
watch chain with no watch attached,
The man was found floating face down.
ward In the water. This was rather
singular way in which to lind the body
OF a man who had been drowned. Usu-
ally the body Of a drowned person fills I'D
with water and sinks and does not come
to the surface for days. It may have been
the heavy overcoat which buoyed I'D the
body or 1t may have been that the man
was dead when thrown into the water
ana therefore would have fioated for a
time at least, When found the body had
not been in the water more than a few
hours In the mans pocket was also
found celluloid book with stamps be-
tween its leaves. Had 1t been in the wa
ter much longer than three or four hours
the stamps would have been wet but as
was they were perfectly dry.
When it was believed that the man
found was W. B. Hoyt the passenger list
OF the Boston boat Vas examined to see
If am such name appeared there, the
theory being that the drowned man had
come to Portland the morning his body
was found by the Boston boat and acct
IDENTIFY stumbled OF the end of the wharf
being carried by the ebb tide around
into the Portland Co.'S douks But gthis
passenger list failed to disclose the mama
OF ". b. Hoyt thuoght it NAV have con-
0alneo the name Of Charles Adams OF
William L. Martin. Last night careful
examination or the hotel registers were
made but no such names as those men.
toned could be found. It NAV be as
sumed from this that the stranger had ar
rived by the Boston boat on the morning
Of the accident and possibly some of the
employees of the boat If asked to do so
may Identify the body when they have
seen it.
A strange thing about the case is that
the mans boots were unbottoned when he
was picked up and that the lower part of
his watch pocket had been cut of. The
watch pocket being cut is accounted Tor
by the theory that it was cut off by the
man to avoid the discovery of his identi-
=. If this were done by a man oontem-
plating suicide and as the vest and
trousers found on the body were undoub-
tedly made by the same tailor and pre-
sumably for the same man why Is it that
1t cannot be assumed at once that the
drowned man was Charles Adams as that
name appears on the strap OF the vest to-
gether with the same figures which are
FOUND on the remaining portion of the
watch pocket? On the buttons of the
trousers were found the names "WiIliam
and George ZindeI. Phila - evidently
the name Of the tailors who made the
clothes.
Ihere were many people about the city
yesterday who knew these facts who
were disposed to believe that the man
had bsen given knock out drops. = had
died az result and had been robbed and
his body afterward thrown into the wa
ter Those who claim this to be lea
sonable theory of the mans death point
out the facts that the body was found
floating face downward. that the boots
were unbottoned, the watch missing
together with all the valuables on the
person excepting six cents.
Yesterday the body was embalined.
no autopsy having been. made.
In the dead mans memorandum book
was written: 1886 W. 80. Candy. -
This entry is supposed TO relate to con.
dictionary manufacturing establishment
which, according to q New York paper
is located at 336 West Thirty ninth
street, that city.
An Associated Press despatch received
last night was as follows:
New York, October H25.-Tbe only
William NJ. Martin IN the directory IS
lawyer OF Il Broadway. At his office Il
~ mt'S TaIu enaS ne had gone to his home
at NorWatk, Conn for the day.
The name found on rha nan 7t,o-o,,o
IN the oeao man 5 pocket was NOT vii
liam d. Martin but William +, Marian
1t Is singular that William M. Marti,
should De given as residing in NorwaIk
Conn, tne same town from which W r
Hoyt nails and that 3 handkerchief hear
Ing a name identical With the above Wit
me eAcspelon OF the middle letter shoul,
De 4ounu III the pocket OF the dead ma
WI y n11S 80, ~ no0s COOK In another poke
'''7 ~ D--N INC H'a1l-e - ". b. Hoyt."