The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-03-02

Edward Ford Howard, Gf Monfclair, N. New Jersey Vesterday-Ths Story of the Fatal Case.
 Edward Ford Howard, twenty-one years old, junior in Sheffield Scientific school, and a son of General John R. Howard, Montclair, N. J., was found dead by two Yale divinity students. T. T. sDenhardt of Toronto, Can, and George Gilmour Of Frankfort, Pa., on the cliff at East Rock park, 150 feet from the summit, at 5 o'clock Satur- day afternoon. Howard and been miss ing since Tuesday.
 There is some doubt whether death was the result of an accident. Medical Examiner Bartlett's investigation has failed to bring forth a motive for suicide. Howard disappeared on Tues day morning and on Friday his broth CT, who graduated from Yale, came here to look his brother up.
 He started search but gave no gen. efal alarm. The discovery of the body was accidental,
 Dr. Bartlett, returned the death cer- tificate, giving the cause of death as result of fall from the cliff at East Rock park some time between February 24 and 2S.
 The death certificate also shows his mothers name as Susan R. Howard, his fathers name John R. Howard, his residence as Montclair, N. J., and his age as twenty-one years two months.
 His brother. Frank Howard, Yale 1896, ordered R. N. Burwell & Co.,, the undertakers, to get a removal certifi- cate and the body was taken to New York on the 8 o'clock train Sunday morning. The burial will be at Mont clair, N. J.
 When seen in lis room in West Di- vinity hall MT. Gilmour told the fol- lowing story of the discovery of the body: He and Denhardt, who are in the habit of taking long walks through the country as daily exercise, on their jaunt Saturday afternoon made their way to the top of East Rock. About 4:3O when they had just started to come down and were at spot about 150 yards northwest of the monument they saw 3 man running towards them. They stopped and when he was almost up to them the stranger pointed towards the front of the rock and said: 'I think there is a body down there" The two students rushed at once to the railing, that is at the edge of the cliff. and looked down. Fully 150 feet below them they saw the body. Their first move was to go to the house on the top of the rock looking for a telephone. The house was locked and they made their way at once to Orange street, where they notified the police of their discovery. The stranger who notified them had disappeared by this time and the two divinity students have no idea who he was.
 Making their way back to the foot of the rock they started to make their way to the spot where the body lay Crawling on their hands and knees they ascended ard after a struggle reached the spot where the body lay The corpse was on a slanting ledge of rock some twenty feet wide. The body was stretched out at full length. the he'd poainting down towards the foot of tIlE siAS JohS eS "Sli fao they could the couple slipped and slid along with their burden and as best they were able made their way to the foot where the body was left until the police arrived.
 MT Gi1mour said that in his opinion the body was frozen as it was stiff and very difficult to carry. The face was discolored and yellow and an expres- sion Of horror printed on the features. One hand was bleached white while the other was not.
 A statement was issued at the Colony by his friends that Howard had been with IS. W. Parsons on the corner of Elm and College streets Tuesday at 1:so D.. m. The first day his absence caused no alarm as it was supposed that he had gone on a visit to his rela- lives.
 One of the members of Berzilius stat ed that there was no reason to suspect any mental derangement As far as he knew Howard had absolutely nothing to worry him and there is no reason to believe that he would take his life.
 Howard was 8 member of the Ber-