New-York tribune., 1902-12-11
NEWSBOY DEAD IN PARK.
NufPey 3,ouRd Gnd NarkS on Throat
Nay Mdicate WWder.

| The unidentified body of a newsboy' about
fifteen years old, found late last hlsh' al
| the bride path in Central Park, about oppoSi's
! West Eighty-hfth-st., and near the workshop oi
| the Department Of Parks.
| Policeman Corsteger Of the park squau' was
| passing through the path when he stumoieu
| against the bodv living little distance to one
side Of the road 1t WAS fully clothed ana holh-
ing to indicate that he had come to his death
| b1- bie own hand was found. An ambulance
surgeon from the Presbyterian Hospital was
summoned He found some marks on the neck
of the BODY which he told the police ne believed
TO be birthmarks Coroner Scholer was IN
formed of the case and viewed the bodE- he
examined the marks the neck and sald ne
was not certain whether they were birthmarkS
or marks of violence. He gave permit for the
removal Of the body to the morgue and it was
taken there
The body was that of a youth about four feet
eight inches tall. and well formed he had
dark brown hair and eyes and salloW com
pIexion The body was clothed in a gray striped
coat black knee breeches. d blue walstcoat with
white stripes. black overcoat and black cap
and black laced shoes None of the park police
men had seen the boy enter the park during the
evening.
DR. Van In-en of the Presbyterian Hospital,
who was called said the boy had birthmark on
the right cheek, but later said that there were
seven marks. of a dark blush tnge. on the right
side of the neck just under the point of the jaw.
and three similar marks on the left side. About
the boys neck costly silk muff1er. The
police said this looked have been loosely tied,
when they found the body. 1t appeared. they
said. to have been hastily put around the boys
neck and to have been hurriedly tied.
Near the body was a bundle of late evening
Il pennies and three transfers issued by con-
ductors of the Lexington. Madison and Eighth
ave. cars good until o'clock last night. The
police believe the boy had been selling papers at
Eighty-sixth-st. and had finally started 10 walk
across the park through the EightysiSth-st-
road. instead of waiting for horsecar- There
also found slip of paper showing that he
had been doing good work in one of the public
schools.
The police will not say the case is suspicious.
but have detailed three detectives to investigate.
Coroner Scholer says he will have an autopsy
performed at the morgue to-day
At the mOrgue the body was examined by sew
eral persons including the night morgue keep
er, Walker He said there eight marks
the throat which look if they were made
by the pressure of fingers. No one was an in
cision or laceration and the skin was not
broken.
is a lacerated one and about the size of half
dollar In the exact centre of this wound is
a puncture about quarter of an inch deep,
Walker said the puncture looked TO him more
like the mark of animals tooth, such a
dog some wild animal that might have es-
capped in the park and attacked the boy. The
marks on the throat. however do not look at all
like such might he made by an animal.
The police later advanced the theory that the
boy might have been trying beat his way
across town the Eighty-sixth-st horsecar
line and that the transfers he had, being no
good after y o'clock, had been offered by HIM.
The conductor might have refused to take one
and an argument have followed. and then the
conductor, the police think, might have choked
the boy. Later. seeing he had gone too far.
he easily could have taken the boy off the car
and to the position under the bride path loop,
within ten feet of the Crosstown road.