The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-03-30
MYSTERY STILL UNC[EARED
MAN WHO WAS FOUND BADLY
WOUNDED, TELLS STORY.
HE GAME HERE FROM FREMONT
Says He Was Walking up Town and
That He Fell Down--Was TO Meet
YOUNG Woman Cousin Here-Little
Hole at Back Of Head is Worst.

That He Fell Down--Was to Meet
Young Woman Cousin Here-Little
Hole at Back of Head is Worst.
l.. II. Jeter, the Brown county man
who was found near the old Lomp beer
vault, his face covered with dirt and
blood, after having his deep head
wounds dressed, said at noon that he
came to Norfolk from Fremont, where
he had been working at tracklaying
since January for the Great Northern
railroad. He says that he came to
Norfolk on the evening main line
train and started to walk up town
along the railroad track, when he fell
and was hurt This, of course, Is an
impossible story, as his scalp is torn
all to pieces, his wounds being even
deeper than was at first known. The
cause of the accident, therefore, still
remains an mcleared mystery.
1t was discovered late In the day
that little wound at the center and
base of the head is even more serious
than the long one near the top. This
little wound at the back of the scalp
is but an inch long but very, very
deep, and serious.
The gashes all are sharply cut, as
though made by some keen edged OBJ
| iect, and their depth and number tends
to increase the mystery as to the
cause. 1t is difficult TO believe that
the fellow struck a rail, as the cuts
are on both sides of the head and so
deep. And yet there is nothing to in
dicate that he was with anyone who
might have slashed him.
.Jeter says that he came to Norfolk
and intended to take the train for
Johnstown, after remaining here over
a day. He says he wanted to stay
here because he had intended to meet
he said, had been teaching school al
Middletown, S. D.. and who was tc
have been in Norfolk to accompany
this man to their home in Brown
county. Jeter says that his cousins
school was out and that she was due
here, enroute home.
First Seen by Brakeman.
The wounded man was first seen by
a brakeman on the early morning
Bonesteel train when the train pulled
into the uptown station from the juno
tion. At that time Jeter was wander
ing around aimlessly near the LemI
beer vault. When the train stopped
at the station the conductor was in
formed and, without even unloading
freight, he backed his train and found
the man. The police were notified
and Chief Hay went for the injured
stranger.
Jeter says that he has worked or
and elsewhere, having recently worked
on a farm for a blind man in Iowa
He says he is an American and thirty
five years of age.
The wounded man was taken during
the afternoon to the Norfolk House or
Norfolk avenue, where he was placed
under the care of Mrs. Farley. He
will be kept here at the expense o.
Madison county, County Commission
er Taft and County Attorney Jacl
Koenigstein having been informed o
the case. The man had no money anC
it was decided that it was a case fo
the county.
The man is thought to really know
exactly what happened to him but HI
refuses to give down the straight o
it. His story is absolutely ridiculous
in the face of the severity Of his cuts
but he sticks to the yarn nevertheless
He even refused to make any othe
statement to the doctor, after he wai
alone in the room with DR.. Pilger.
One theory Of the cause of the acct
dent is that perhaps the man started
to ride an engine west toward John
town and that, when he saw the engine
turning into a side track, he Nigh
have jumped. Another theory is tina
he may have been in a fight but he re
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