Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1908-11-28
BOYS FIND A
MAN DEAD AT
SIDE OF TRACK
Had Paper Bearing Name of
Stephen Holiday, 426
State St., Perth Amboy."
RELATIVE SCOUTS
SUICIDE THEORY
Coroner Agrees With Him in
Opinion of Case at Eas-
ton, Pennsylvania.

ton, Pennsylvania.
Easton, Nov. 2S:-Half a dozen
boys who were cutting branches along
the track of the Easton & Northern
railroad to build a cumming shanty''
on the hillside above the roadbed.
about o'clock Thursday afternoon,
saw a man lying in the tall grass
twenty-five or thirty feet from the
foot of the embankment on which
the track is laid. After having care
fully surveyed the man the lads con-
cluded there was something wron z
with him and walked down the track
quarter of mile or SO, to the Eas-
ton Lime Company's kilns, and made
known their suspicious. Three of the
lime-burners went to the place where
the man had been seen and discover
ed that he was dead. Information to
that effect was telephoned to the po-
lice and Patrolmen Claus and Black
burn went to the locality to make an
Investigation. They found the man
to be stranger to them, we'll dressed.
with knife clutched In his right
hand. blade of the knife was open,
but there was no blood on 1t and
there were no blood stains to be
found on the clothing. Coroner Feth-
erolf was telephoned to and sent
word back that he would come to
Easton at once and take charge of
the case. 1t was dark when he reach
ed the locality considerable time af-
ter the discovery Of the body havin q
been occupied in walking to the out
of-the-way place where the remains
lay and then going to a point where
telephone could be had By the
aid of couple of lanterns employees
of the lime company took him to the
locality, an examination being made
of the body. No mark could be
found on the dead man that might
indicate that he had been struck by
train or that he had been struck
with weapon of any kind In the
pockets of the deceased were found
watch, a purse containing S1.09
and scrap of paper on which was
written, Stephen Holiday, 426 State
street, Perth Amboy, N. j."
No one in the small crowd of peo-
pie that assembled where the body
had been found, was able to identify
1uC AS uO e2dul-
ination could be made of the body
where 1t was lying, the coroner de-
fcided TO have 1t removed. 1t was car
ried up the track by the officers pre-
viously named, Patrolman Leiben-
good, who had arrived little later,
and Coroner Fetherolf, F. C. VIII
liams, a newspaper reporter and two
or three other men, to the railroad
station at Thirteenth street, where
1t was turned over to Undertaken Van
Mater, who took it to his morgue.
The carrying of the remains to ThiF-
lteenth street entailed considerable
labor, the body, that of a man near
ly six feet tall, weighing 175 or 1856
pounds.
While the body was at the Easton
& Northern station 1t was identified
by one of the employees of c. K. Will
Iliams & Co., as that of Barley Laszio,
a Hungarian, who was in the employ
of the same firm two or three years
ago and who had recently returned
from visit to his mother, In the old
country. The same party recognized
the address on the slap OF paper found
In the dead mans pocket to be that
of silk weaver who had been en-
ployed at the Simon mills, but who
had lately moved to Perth Amboy.
He and the deceased had been friends
before Laszio went to the old coun-
try.
| Later in the evening Lieutenant
CRUDE and Patrolman Trunk learned
that the dead man boarded at the
home of Julius Guish, No. Gers
pach court, where julius Vols, a STEP
brother of the deceased, also board
ed. The latter said that Barley was
in cheerful disposition when he left
tue house yesterday morning, saying
that he was going out to look for
work He will not entertain a
thought that Barley committed sui
eide, but is of the opinion that he
was taken i'll suddenly, fell where he
was found and died. The coroner is
also of the opinion that death result
ed from natural causes, probably
from cerebral hemorrhage. No in
quest was held.
The boys who discovered the body
are Edward Dietzel, William Dietzel.
Rush Dietzel, George Kist, William
Brunner and Raymond Follweiler.
Oscar Garis, Jacob Breiner and Theo-
philus Breiner are employees of the
Easton Lime Company who summon
ed the police and helped carry the
body to Thirteenth street.
The local police and a NEWS re-
porter visited the place at 426 State
street this morning and found that
Stephen Holiday was the name of a
friend of the dead man, who lives at
29 French street, New Brunswick,
but who had planned to move to 426
State street, this city. The dead
man, being a friend of Holidays,
frequently corresponded with him
and therefore was in possession OF
his new address. Holiday was COM
ing In the near future to work in this
city.