New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-11-29
CORONER PROBES DEATH
Rodu Found Mutilated at Foot OF
AirShaft.

Cor,ner schoIer and the police OF the East
Fiftv-irst-st station are investigating the 'ii
cumstances surrounding the death VI ''sePN
LLOYD a laborer employed by the Nhaiiii''
,r.,rsi+ Co,onanv; whose body was found at the
foot of the elevator shaft in the company STA
bles at No 237 East Forty-seventh-st-' last
.ven,ng The mans skull had been crushed in
His right eye was missing. and ms Ael' ese 49,
discoIored About half an inch over the right
co.. ,y,s O hole that Coroner Scholer thought
bs5 been made by a bullet. The body was sent
IN the rnorgue. and an autopsy will be performed
IN ascertain tust what caused the mans death.
Two employees of the stable. who found the
body. told the police that they thought the man
had fallen from the second to the hr5t hoor'
distance of eleven feet. Coroner Schoier says
he does not think IT possible for the man 10 nave
received tho injuries he did from such 1aI
Patrick Lynch, Of No. 245 East Forty-seventh-
St was locked up by order or the coroner
charged with suspicion of knowing how the man
came to his death and concealinG the truth
There was little police activity in the case
until Coroner Scholer arrived on the scene The
police had been Informed of the mans death oy
Peter DIVER of No 593 East One-hundred-and-
thirty-ffth-st. and Joseph Mcdowell, of NO. III
East Fifty-third-st., employees of the Manhattan
Transit Company. The body was removed 10
the East Fifty-1rst-st. station, where IL was ieiu
until Coroner Scholer arrived. AS soon as the
coroner had viewed the body he asked what hau
been done in the case. He was told by the po-
lice he says that il appeared to them as Ii the
mans death was accidental. Coroner ochGIer
Immediately ordered an investigator, anu d e
tectives Beany and Walsh were put on IEe Cooo
They went to the stable with Coroner ocholei,
where he ordered them to lock up Lynch. ne
then told them to continue the lnVestiSdtIOil' W
ordered the body removed TO the morsue. l..
Mr.. McGovern, the morgue Keeper sdlu ina 80! ~
all his experience he had never seen pody Win
so many Injuries resulting from short IAN. ne
said that he thought it impossible, ana gave II
as his opinion that death had been causeu " q
bullet. The hole in the head was sidhtIts, t ~
the rnoreue keeper thought it possible that the
bullet had passed through the head ana shOC
out the mans right eye. The ponce say Una.
Dwyer Mcdowell and Lynch had been WORKING
in the building all day, and that an ueny nc nc.
they heard a shot None of them had seen MIN
fan, but they said he had been at work on the
second floor.
Detectives Henry and Walsh began another
the DoIice his suspicions They found that lot
of worknen eight or ten in number, VINO had
been working the first nOor had DeeA Oh
dered to the third floor. They boarded Ihe
freight elevator, big enough 10 1O5so a tS
1t was drawn up, but Henry and Walsh SAID
number of the men, who were on the car, dIa
not see any one try to get on II. IL IS peLeVeu
bv the detectives, however, that Lloyd was late
and tried to lump on the elevator as 1t started
missed his hold and fell. They think he may
have struck his head on piece OF IRON project
ing from the side of the shaft ana resting on the
dirt bottom. The car it was found' only came
within two feet of the dirt.
The detectives heard that a man hau seen the
accident and knew just how it occurred but
they could not find him, though their search
continued in his direction.
Coroner Scholer said the mans head had
wounds which could not have been caused by
the car crushing it.