Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-07
ONE TAKES
HIS LIFE BY
ACID ROUTE
FOUND UNDER SHRUBBERY IN
WESTLAKE PARK
SECOND VICTIM Is STRUCK BY
TRAIN
Marks Of Identification Hard to Find.
Suicide Takes Every Precau-
tion to obIlterate All
CIeWs

Two men, both of whom are as yet un-
identified, came to violent ends late yes
terday afternoon and their bodies are in
charge Of the coroner awaiting recoy-
milton.
There was nothing on the body of either
man which would lead to Identification
except a laundry mark on the under
clothing of one
One man died by his own act In Sc
cluded part of Westlake park by drinking
carbolic acid. The other was struck by a
Santa Fe passenger train while he was
riding a bicycle on the railroad right of
way and was so badly injured that he
died within ten minutes after being hur-
ried to hospital.
Soon after o'clock as the watchman IN
Westlake park was making his rounds
he observed the body of man beneath
some shrubbery near the edge of the lake.
Finds Life Gone
He approached and tried to wake the
man to order him out of the park, and
when unable to arouse him made an In
vestigation and found him dead.
The coroner was notified and had the
body removed to Bresee Bros morgue.
There was nothing in the pockets OF the
clothing worn by the dead man whlcn
could leao to his Identification. All papers
had been destroyed or thrown away, and
even the initials which had been cut In
the sweat band of the hat which he wore
had been torn out.
Alongside the body when found was an
empty four-ounce vial which had con-
tanned carbolic acid, the label and marks
of the druggist carefully obliterated.
The blackened and burned condition or
the mouth of the deceased and the odor
of the acid explained the method OF death.
Laundry Mark clew
At the morgue the first and only ciew
to the identity of the dead man, and that
a slight one was found. On the under
clothing was the laundry mark IS ~.
Nothing else was found which could
possibly-Iead to his identity.
The body was evidently that OF man
45 to so years of age, feet inches In
height. 150 pounds in weight, Iair com
plexion, sandy hair and mustache, slightly
tinged with gray. Clothing dark and u
good texture.
The second unknown was man who
was rushed in a fatally injured CONDITION
in an automobile from Bandini station
eight miles from the city on the santa re
railroad, to the Santa Fe hospital IN
Boyle Heights. The man died within ten
minutes after reaching the hospltai ana
was at no time conscious.
Late in the afternoon as Thomas Amer
of Rivera station was walking along the
Santa Fe right of way he observed 4
broken bicycle at the foot of forty -foot
embankment
He decided to make an investigator.
and a few feet away from the wreck OF
the machine he found the body or man
still alive but unconscious
Dies at Hospital
Running up to the top of the embank-
ment he was just in time to stop L. j.
Knlian of the Arrowhead Realty COM
nany who was passing on the wagon road
in an automobile.
Mr. Killian and his machine were pressed
into service and the man placed IN the
tonneau of the car and the Santa Fe nos
nItal. which was nearest, was headed for.
While the motor car broke all speed
regulations and the eight miles were
covered in less than twelve minutes the
effort proved In vain. as the man dled
soon after, being placed on stretcher 10
move him to cot in the surgical ward.
He was evidently laborer or rancn
hand His age was about "a and he was
dressed insa suit of overalls and black
striped shirt The body was removed
from the hospital to Bresee Bros morgue
and the coroner notified.
From the circumstances 1T is evident
that the man was riding bicycle on the
right of way of the railroad and was
struck by a passenger train which had
passed that point but short time
previous to the discovery of the body.