The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1902-12-10
THE SUICIDE WILL
BE BURIED TO-DAY
All Efforts TO Identify the Unfor-
tunate Man were in Vain.
WILL BE BURIED IN REYN.
OLDSVILLE CEMETERY.
II Is Claimed that he Stayed at Falls Creek the
Night before Committing Suicide and
Said his Home was al Braddock. -

Notwithstanding the fact that the
man who committed suicide on Main
street the evening Of November 28, by
sending bullet crashing into his
brain, was recognized at first as man
| named Mottern, then Oliver Motter
and Joseph Bailey, he will be buried
| to-day unclaimed and unknown,
| although every possible effort was
made to have the man identified.
Undertaken j. ii. Hughes embalmed
the body and has kept it in his under
| taking rooms. While waiting for some
one to identify the body he was expert
menting with his embalming process.
| Although the body was not buried
until to-day, twelve days after death,
yet IL is In good condition.
| This is certainly remarkable case,
and II shows how people can be mis-
taken AS to identity OF persons. The
man looked SO much like Joseph Bailey
that people with whom Bailey had
boarded two or three years, declared
that 1t was Bailey, and to prove that
they were correct, a scar would be
found on right foot, and 1t was there.
| Then Baileys son, in telephoning from
Shawmut, said his father also had q
scar on right knee, and an examination
revealed the fact that the dead man
had scar on his knee, but 1t Is claimed
that Bailey is at his home in Shawmut.
| Another party claimed that the dead
man was Oliver Motter from over near
Clarion river, and a telephone message
was received here that friends would
come after the body. In a couple OF
hours afterward another telephone
message brought the news that Motter
/ was at his home alive.
| The editor Of THE STAR received
letter last Friday morning from DR.. II.
| M. Boyle, OF Falls Creek, in which
| Doctor stated that the man who had
committed suicide in Reynoldsville had
stayed all night in the city home at
Falls Creek just previous TO taking his
own life and that the nightwatchman
had talked to the man awhile. He told
the watchman he was pattern maker,
lived in Braddock, had wife and three
children. He had been working at
Bradford, had sent all his wages to his
family and then contracted pneumonia
and for awhile was sick, and without
money he started home. He would not
beg, but was given something to eat
the following morning.
Thinking that there was possibility
that the man did have a family in Brad
| uoSh, euo cuiVoi vi bhio paper
a photograph OF the dead man and sent
it, with particulars of the suicide, to
William Bennett, chief-of-police Of
Braddock, and on Monday received the
following reply from Mr.. Bennett
"Your favor at hand and contents
noted. had my officers to make in
quiry about the suicide, but we could
lind no trace OF any one knowing or
| recognizing the picture. Should we,
however, find out anything we will let
you know Immediately"
The dead man was five feet inches
tall, had heavy mustache, generously
sprinkled with gray, heavy eyebrows
and was baldheaded. He was a man
about 55 years old.
At ten o'clock this forenoon Under
taker Hughes will bury the unknown
man in the Reynoldsville Cemetery,
where just enough ground to bury him
In was bought.