The times., 1901-04-13
SUPPOSED TO BIZ A SUICIDE
Children Find the Body Of a Man
With the Throat Cut.

| circumstances Indicate seif-De-
struction-No Means of Identitica-
ton - Evidently Person of Re
| fncmeuf Unused to ManunI Labor.
| The body Of an unknown white man,
with his throat cut from ear TO ear, was
| found about 2:15 o'clock yesterday after
| noon in a-ravine several hundred yards
north of a point on Pennsylvania Avenue
| extended about half a mile beyond the
! eastern end of the Pennsylvania Avenue
| Bridge The body gave every indication
of having been there several days 1t is
| believed the man committed suicide The
! efforts of the police to establish the iden-
! tity of the dead man have so far been
! without avail The body is held at the
morgue.
The body was found by several little
| girls, who were looking for flowers in the
woods. They notified Policeman w. w.
! Andrews, who summoned the morgue
wagon, and went TO the spot to invest-
gate. He found the body partially COW
cred with leaves, which probably ac-
counted fer it's not having been discovered
by pedestrians, who make use Of a path
through The woods that runs within a
few feet of the spot wncre the body lay.
A little bank at the head of the ravine
gave evidence that the man had seated
| himself there and dug his heels into the
loose soil.
Near the body was found a white-han-
died Rodgers razor that had seen but lit
tie use a piece OF the handle had been
broken off near the point where the blade
hinged. Although the carotid arteries on
both sides Of the throat had been severed
and the thoraX penetrated by the stroke
OF the blade the man had edged himself
about ten feet down into the gulley from
the point where the fatal act is supposed
TO have been committed.
The place is rather lonely one the
nearest house being about half a mile
distant This house is occupied by a Mrs
Howard whose son Richard stated that
about two weeks ago the man whose body
was found called at their house and want
ed to buy penny's worth Of milk Young
Howard appears to be the only person
in the neighborhood who saw the man be-
fore his body was found.
Nothing was found in the pockets of the
dead man but a pouch of finecut tobacco,
a package of cigarette papers. and one
penny The body was dressed in a black
diagonal cutaway suit. black shoes, black
derby hat, new white shirt, a collar,
ana blue teck necktle. The under
clothing was OF white balbriggan and the
socks were of brown cotton
After the body had been removed 20
the morgue Coroner Neyitt viewed it and
gave it as his opinion that the man had
not been dead more than three days.
The body is tnat of a man about thirty
FIVE years OF age, ; feet 10 inches in
height, and weighing about 80 pounds.
There was about a week 5 growth Of beard
on the face, ana the hair, which was re-
ceiing from the forehead, and a heavy
mIstache were dark brown The hands
ana wrists We're remarkably small for a
man of his size ana weight ana gave TO
evidence of manual labor An eye tooth
on the left side of the upper jaw is partly
decayed and broken off. At first glance
il gives the impression that the tooth is
gone.
F'or time it was thought that the body
might be that of Lewis }. Marvin, VINO
escaped from the Government Hospital
for The insane about week ago, but
this proved 10 be erroneous. Unless adj
Giuional facts are brought to light by
the investigation which is now being con-
Quoted by the police. it is likely that
Coroner NeYitt Will issue a certificate Of
suicidal death