Evening star., 1902-03-05
MAY BE CAPTAIN LORD
BODY OF DROWNED MAN TO BE
INSPECTED.
Found Near River View Yesterday
Morning-Police Boat Vigilant
Sent to Investigate.

Capt. Boardman sent Detective Miller
down the river on the police boat Figilant
this morning to make an investigation con-
cerning the dead body of white man that
was found On the Maryland side Of the
river near River View yesterday morning.
When Capt. Boardman learned of the find
ing OF the body and the description given of
1t he had an idea that it might possibly be
the body of the missing Capt. Lord.
1t was apparent that the body had been
in the water for long time, and 1t was
believed it had washed down the river dur
ing the high water last week. A close
and careful examination Of the body was
not made. Magistrate Hatton held an IN
quest. DR.. HURT Of Prince Georges county,
Md, viewed the body and was present at
the inquiry. The jury returned verdict
In order that the body might be legally IN
TERED Nothing was ascertalned as TO the
Identity or the man or the cause or deatn.
The body was found on the shore early
yesterday morning by Mr.. James F. Edelin,,
VINO summoned the magistrate ana doctor.
After the magistrate searched the river
front the body was partly stripped. The
police were informed that there seemed to
be a coating of lime on the body. and. while
the lime had decayed. the clothing, 1t mad
preserved the skin and flesh. Mr. Edelin,
VINO reported the case to the ponce, saw
the body before it was inferred. The man
had on striped pants, plaid coat and vest
and blue overcoat. Mr. Edelin, thought
theunh the man was m probably sixty years oo a
lower part of his face was left, and there
was enough of 1t to show that he had
beard at the time of his death.
There was nothing about the clothing on
the mans body to indicate who he was.
How 1t became coated with lime is mys-
terry. 1t is suggested by some of the police
officials that the man may have spent some
time about lime kiln before he met his
fhar h fc
before or after death can only be deter
mined by an autopsy. 1t is believed to be
possible that he was murdered at some
point up the river and his body thrown into
the water, or he may have committed sui
eide by drowning.
The suggestion was made this afternoon
that in the event of the body proving to be
that Of Captain Lord the captain had prob
ably wandered through the country and lott
cred about some Of the lime kilns in Mary
land and West Virginia until his body had
become coated, and that he subsequently
drowned himself. Captain Lords left foot
was gone and he wore an artificial foot
Yesterday morning when the body down
the river was examined the shoe was taken
from the right foot, which seemed coated
with lime the same as the body. The left
foot was not touched. The age and part
of the clothing on the body tally with that
Of the missing Captain Lord.
The captain was flfty-Seven years old.
and at the time of his disappearance he
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Another Body Found.
Another body was found off Bryan's
Point in the Potomac river yesterday after
noon about o'clock, just across from Fort
Washington, by Mr.. Bryan. The body was
that Of a man about twenty-five years Of
age, five feet six inches in height and 145
pounds in weight. He was well dressed
nd ho1 hoi~ oho III
enameled shoes, dark trousers, with white
stripes; blue shirt, with gold collar but
ton in the neckband. and one kid glove
On the back of the right hand there was
found a dot Of India ink. From the condi-
tion of the body it had evidently been in
the water some time