The twice=a=week herald. (Amarillo, Tex.) 1887-1906, 1906-10-09
Unknown Boy Found Last Evening Perfectly Nude
With Skull Crushed and Score Of Other
Wounds On His Person
AFFAIR so FAR A MYSTERY
ShO Did the Bloody Deed Who the Young Man Is and The
Motive For the Crime Are Among The Unanswered
QusstIOns%% ChOnCs For Recovery.

sFrom FRIDAYS Daily Panhapdlc)
A boy, apparently not moro than
~ years old, lies a. 81. Anihonye
asnitarium. the victim Of a flend-
Ssh crime, committed some time yes
terday. Found unconscious. stark
naked. with his head and face a
ghsstly mass Of blood and gashcs, be
reveals a part OF thc most mysterious
crime with which Amarillo authori-
ties have ever had to deal. What
part Of the crime ho could reveal
mr. what motives actuatod such a bru-
lai crime, arc yot only matters for
conjecture. In his cot at The SAINT
latiam he writhes and stoaus in ago
nv from the eleven suts1 his skull
ana face. but beyond few half intel
ligibls words, rs has given no sign
Of undarstapding.
The discovery
Yesterday aficrpoon between 3
sud 9 o'cloc, MN Arch Ward, who
lives on North lnhpSon street. and
her son. we're driving in a buggy be-
lweep the Denver round house and
thr Rock Island Y. AS she nearod
tho y. she saw at a few hundred
feet away, a man naked, beside the
track, struggling or attempting 10
crawl, Almost At the time she saw
him, he dropped prone to the sronndI
ugoin and lay perfectly sill. Mrs.
Ward drove as fast as possible to her
house which faces the Y aud is. per-
haps a square or more distant from
the switch where the strange figure
was lying.
Hor neig1hor, Tom Boucher had
fist retuneddroh work, and ran at
once 10 the spot She indicated Here,
beside the thstls probe on his face,
with his head gruesome mass of
clotted blood and gaping wounds, layl
boy without a thread of clothing tol
shield him fromfspn aud air. The
only sign Of animation about the
body was q falpAsiiyerlng from the
rold air.
Mr.. Boucher ran back 20 HIS house
Cor coverings and, gave a further
alarm. a hack soon came aud the
Snconscius boy was conveyed down
own TO the physicians.
Who Are clarence" and bob"
The physicians at once hurried
him to the sanitarium ana began
IN what aHhed at first to be a hope.
loss casel sS'Grhdually, however as
the caked blood was washed away
and the surgeons continued their
labors, the boy revived TO some ex-
tent As DR.. Shirley and DR.. McMeans
commenced operation, the hoy strug-
sled as II In fear and cried. 20,
qnit." and seemed 10 be recalling
some prior circumstances, but the
name heNp0ke, II he did utter one,
was unintclligiblc, To. Or. shirey's
questions as5 TO where he lived. he
seemed 10 answer that he lived here.
Again he said. Clarence or ''Clar-
cRee sioan aud at another time
\ Bob but whether these names APP
plied to himself or 10 some other per-
ap, there was no means OF discover
Buteherel aud Left for Dead
There Is little donbt but that the
boz, for some unknown reason was,
70 all fntents and purposes Of his
:lsssilanis, murdered and left forl
dead after every yestige Of clothing
~ which he might be identified had
beensfemoyed. Il Is likely that when
he was lets on The prairie Yesterday
he wait TO MI appearances dead. The
shock of the cold fresh air revived
4
liAa and he was discoyered beforrlj
exposure KILLED him. l,