The Red Cloud chief., 1903-10-02

Clothing Co, of this city. In another
pocket of the coat was a sample of
green dress goods, while in still an
other pocket we're found a number of
cartridges In a pocket of
the trousers which he wore beneath
his o~veralls was found a plug of chew
ing tobacco from which only a small
portion had been used Mr. Harring-
ton identified the plug of tobacco as
the one he had given to Madison.
The clothing found on the corpse
Tailed in nearly every respect with
the descriptions of that worn by Tom
Madison. A dark tailor. made coat,
dark pants with a fine light stripe, a
black and white check double breast.
cd vest, brown hat, a new leather belt
branded Perfection" near,y new
summer underclothing, blue overalls
striped with white, light green socks
with a white stripe encircling them,
and fairly Q shoes.
The badly decomposed condition Of
the body made it almost impossible to
be moved without falling to pieces,
and indicated that Madison had been
dead several days. It was two weeks
today that Madison was tracked to
the edge of a cornfield within a few
yards of where his body was found.
after which all trace of him was lost.
lie undoubtedly ended his life that
night
The corpse was a sickening sight to
look upon The flesh had turned
black, both hands had been eaten off
by coyotes or wolves, aud the entire
body was teeming with maggots and
insects. When the clothing was re-
moved from the body both arms hung
only by shreds of skin.
Undertaken Mun'z, who has been in
the business for fifteen years, said the
corpse was in the worst condition of
any he had aver handled.
The .pot where the body was found
is on Mike Vavricka's farm, southeast
quarter of section -, Batin township.
within a few yards of the south section
lire and about 300 yards east from the
main road running due north from
Red Cloud
Many suggestions as to the DISPOSE.
ton of the body were advanced, the
one meeting with most favor being
that it should be burned where it lay
Both the coroner and sheriff objected
to this and it was finally brought to
Red Cloud The condition of the body
was such that it could not be kept for
any length of time, and as no one ap,
peared to claim it, the corpse was
taken to tire poor farm Wednesday
night and buried There were nc
services. aud no tears we're shed.
The coroner's jury, COMPOSED of j
p Hale, Oscar Boyce, Robert Adam
son, James Mcbride, Albert Thomp
son and John ID, Storey, after examin
ing the corpse and hearing the evi
dence, handed in the following yer
diet:
STATE OF NEBRASKA,
WEBSTER COUNTY.
At an inquisitiou held at the south
west quarter of section %, township
north, range II west. in Webster coun
ty, on the 30th day of September, 1905
by me, coroner of said county, upol
the body of Tom Madison, lying dead
. by the jurors, whose names are here
unto subscribed, the said jurors upol
their oaths do say that he came to hi
+, death by his own hand, by takinI
, poison and then by a gunshot kille'
himself.
a, Tom Madlson's Black Record.
j Tom Madison, the fend in human
, form, for whom the officers and cit
. zens Of two states have been searchin
for over two weeks, Is dead at last
: II half the stories told Of him are tru,
S he was certainly a very dangerous pei
: son to be at liberty. The story of hi
crimes committed in Missouri is as re
voting as the crime he committed /
in Kansas, One story, which come
e from "a reliable source, is that Madison
in a fit of drunken confidence, told a