The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1904-08-19
JOHN McGUIRE, UNKNOWN MAN
ABOUT FIFTY YEARS OF ACE Ex-
PRES IN THE CITY LOCK UP.
HAD NOT COMPLAINED OF BEING
ILL BUT he WAS AFFLICTED
WITH HEART AND KIDNEY DIS.
EASES.
Chief of Police Found Him Lying Dead
When He Went to Release Prisoner
Man Was Serving Three Days
Sentence For Drunkenness.


John Mcguire, an unknown man about
nifty yeats Of age, died in cell No. . inI
the city lookup Sunday afternoon from
the effects of drunken debaueh. His
dead body was discovered in che cell byI
Chief OF Police Howe when he went into
the cell to release prisoner.
MCGUIRE was arrested in Glen Elk last
Thursday by officer Fox and brought to-
the city lookup. He was in badly in,
toxiclted condition. He was given trial by
Mayor Shields Friday morning August
u, convicted of drunkenness and sent
enccd to three days imprisonment in
default Of the payment of a three dol
lar fine.
Mcclure was arrested again about III
o'clock Saturday night by Policeman
Fox, who found him at the bottom OF
the steps at the steam laundry in Glen,
Elk He had evidently fallen down the
stairway, but so far as could be seen
ne was not injured and he made no COM
plant of injuries.
Examination of the body by the city
Health officer showed that the man had
been afflicted with heart disease and
kidney dropsical troubles for some time,
probably for the past several years, The
feet and ankles were swollen and other
indications Of those diseases were evil
denccd.
After Mcclure had been placed in
the lookup he seemed in very weak
and debiIitatcd condition. yet he did not
make any complaint as to being III. IT.
appears that he was just getting over al
big spree. He experienced the usual sick.
ness in getting over the effects of his in.
toxieation but after that lie seemed to|
be in his usual health. In the forenoon
Sunday he did not make any com
plnint to the attendant or to any of the
officers as TO being unwell. When the
Chief of Police went into the cell to re.
lease one of the prisoners whose term
had expired one OF the prisoners told him
that Mcclure was awfully sick. He went
into the cell and found the man lying
ON his side on the floor. He bent over
him and turned him over on his back
but found that the spark of life had
fled and the body was stiff and cold.
The body was removed to the Clifford
Osborne undertaking parlors to be pre-
pared for burial. Efforts win be made
to have the dead man identified and no
funeral arrangements will be made for
while.
Nathing is known concerning the dead
man. He gave his name as John Nc
CURE when arrested and tried and fur.
Their than that his identity is not
known. He was about fifty years of age
Of medium height, weighed probably 100
pounds, hair streaked with grey, had a
minstache and rather prominent nose.
His death was a most pitiable one. In
strange community. alone and in un-
fortunate circumstances suffering from
disease in want of the necessities of
life and trying to drown his sororws and
cares in dring the poor unfortunate man
died in a prison cell. His death was in.
deed sad and pitiable one in contem-
plation of which the tender sympathies
of all are aroused.
Magistrate NJ. S. Riloy as acting cor.
cner took charge of the remains and
made an investigation. He decided that
it would be unnecessary to hold an in
quest as there were no marks of vic.
lence on the body and there were all
evidences of heart and dropsical dis
eases, having caused death.
1t seems that MCGUIRE told one OF the
policemen that he had brother and
sister living in Pittsburg. The police
department OF tho city Of Pittsburg mas
been communicated with and asked tc
find the relatives of the dead man If
possible.