The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-06-09
MURDERED MANS
BODY IS FOUND
With No Clue Except a Brokas
Watchchain, Police Are in
the Dark.
Inmates of Soldiers Home Come
Upon Body Near Mouth Of
Minnehaha Greek.

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Lured to q desolate spot on the banks
Of Minnehaha creek and shot down by
an assassin months ago., a man lay
dense woods until the swirling waters
carried the corpse to Minnehaha park.
1t was found there late yesterday by
two inmates of the soldiers home.
The discovery came by the merest ac-
cident, but hasty investigation by tho
police and coroner revealed the fact
that murder had been done, and the
slayer probably safe from arrest.
The body was taken to the morgue
Immediately after it was discovered,
and today DR.. E. n. Beckman and DR..
Henry Moth performed an autopsy,
tracing the course of the fatal bullet
and establishing beyond a doubt that
the man had not inflicted the wound
with his own hand.
Course Of Fatal Bullet.
The wound that caused death was
evidently made by a ball Of large CALI
the skull toward the back of the head.
and had gone thru a large part of the
brain, SCATTERING the bones below the
eyes.
The body was so badly decomposed.
however, that the physicians were
greatly hampered in their work and
could not find the bullet. It is thought
near the left eye. Judging by the
course taken by the ball, the physi-
clans are positive that the man did not
fire the shot himself, but was shot down
from behind. Death must have come
instantly.
Just when the men met his death
and who fred the shot the police may
never know. Hardly a clue has been
found, and the detectives admit that
per of mark Of identification was
found on the mans person. His clothes
aer plain and no not even bear the name
| Of the maker or seller. No persons who
| have seen the body can say whether
they have ever seen him before, and
relatives of missing persons have been
to the margue only to say that they
! never knew him. The morgue, as usu-
al, has been thronged with persons in.
tent on Identification.
In the Water Many Weeks.
According to the statement of Coro-
ner Kistler and other physicians, the
| body has been in the water many
weeks. They are also inclined to doubt
| the theory that the body was carried
over the falls, but think that the mar
was murdered in the glen below the
| falls and the body washed a little fur
| Their down when the flood came.
In some respects this murder resent
b1es the murder Of Ruth T%eachout, who
neither death only a short distance be.
low the place where the body was found
YESTERDAY. She was killed just two
years ago this week, and her body was
found June 9 at the boom in st. Paul.
| Altho in that case the police never
could get a clue that would throw the
least light OF the tragedy, the body was
unidentified by her parents. This new
case promises to be eve more mystic
rious.
Found by Old Soldiers.
Two inmates Of the Soldiers Home
were rowing about the fats that have
been flooded by the recent rains, when
they came upon the body, caught firmly
in the limb Of the tree. The wv old
soldiers lifted the object far enough
out Of the water to be sure that 1t was
a human body, and in doing SO. saw .
marked the path of a bullet. The body
was SO badly decomposed that recogni-
ton would. be scarcely possible, even
The body is that Of a man apparently
40 years Of age. He had a light mus
inches high and weighed about $50
pounds. At the time Of his death he
wore a dark suit of clothes, a brown
striped shirt without collar or cuffs, and
woollen underwear. Congress shoes and
brown socks completed his clothing.
Attached to the vest was a broken gold
watch chain.
Broken Chain as Sole Clue.
On this piece Of chain hangs the only