New Ulm review., 1903-05-27
UNKNOWN MAN FOUND DEAD
Gruesome Discovery Made Thurs
das by Track Walker.

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4 Corpse Lay Face Downward il
Shallow Pool Of Water.
I Coroner's Inquest Fails to Establish
Identity Of Stranger.
Without the least sign or trace Q
] any ything that would Indicate strug
gle. or foul play, the body Of an un
known stranger was found near tn
j North Western tracks in the southern
i part of the city last Thursday morn
/ ing. He lay face downward in a poo
been dead for some hours. Who he is
or where he may have resided canno1
be learned, and the affair promises
to go down as another unsolved mys.
/ terry
John Karl, a trackwalker on the
North W estern, made the gruesome
] discovery. When in front of Gustav
Guse's residence at Fourteenth South
street.-the saw the body of a man lying
in the water. The corpse was upon
the east side of the track and about
400 feet this side of the mile post.
Upon ascertaining that the man was
dead he communicated with the sec
| ~, a n
A gent Fl. L. Beecher, who in turn ap-
prised Coroner L. A. Fritsche.
That official and Mr.. sBeecher, ac-
companied by Conrad Dirks and M.
A. Bingham, drove to the scene and
viewed the remains. At that point an
excav alton had been made to throw up
the railway embankment and this
spring the depression has been filled
with water. AS a rule, however, this
water is shallow and, where the body
was found, it was but a few inches in
depth. The corpse lay sprawled out
upon it's face, the arms widespread
above the head in the natural position
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his muscles and pitching forward.
The head lay in the deepest water,
but even there the depth did not ex-
ceed four inches and the features were
hardly submerged. The face was i'm
bedded in the mud and when removed
left a distinct impression in the soil
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a few inches from the base of tele-
graph pole and, by actual measure
ment, "a feet east of the rails. The cap
which he had worn was picked up sew
eral feet distant. @
There were no marks to show that
there had been a violent cOmmotlon
anywhere in the vicinity of the spot,
but two footprints were discernable in
the soft mud. These lead toward the
track from the east, tending to show
that the man was walking toward the
embankment.
| When he fell he apparently made no
effort to rise, nor did he struggle IN
the slightest, remaining absolutely
quiet and passive and death following
from suffocation.
| In appearance he was a young man
26 or q years of age, not uncomely
and of muscular frame. He was about
5 feet and inches in height and his
principal personal characteristics were
light-colored, wavy hair and a small,
sandy moustache. In death, his lids
had closed downward across the eye
! balls but when drawn back the eyes
we're found to be blue in color, with
the pupils only moderately dilated.
Particle Of earth clung to his nous
tache but the face was in now wise
distorted. A growth upon the chin
showed that he had not shaved fo1
several days.
The deceased was coarsely, but no1
shabbily dressed. He possessed
navy blue cap of a style commonly
worn and had a heavy black Worstec
coat, suuare-cut and double breasted
His vest was of the same material
!: Wide-striped trousers, slightly worn
covered his neither extremities and ht
! had on a negligee shirt, blue witt
white stripes. His undercl othingg was
: of cotton, light weight, and he had OF
a pair of coarse cotton socks. Lacee
shoes, we'll worn, completed his attire
and the clothing was evidently that Q
laboring man.
At the instance of Coroner Fritscht
the remains were conveyed to the
morgue of L. j. Buenger and at /:
O'Clock Thursday afternoon the in
quest was held. Henry Weyhe, VIM
Frank, Henry Lille, Ed. Flick, Sr.,
Vim. Ruemke, Sr., and VIM. Humme]
were summoned as jurors and DR.. Q.