The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-09-03
TOOK PARIS GREEN
Unknown Man Found Dead on the
Banks Of kenosha River Just
North Of Middle Street
IDENTITY OF MAN UNKNOWN
Man Had Evidently Been Dead for
Several Hours ano Had Suffered
Intensely in Death Struggle
With the Poison
(From Saturday Daily

The remains of an unknown man,
evidently those Of a suicide, were
found lying along the shores of the
Kenosha river just north of the Middle
street bridge late Friday afternoon.
The CHASTITY discovery was made by
some boys playing along the river and
the remains were picked up by the Ke
nosha Life Saving Crew and turned
ed over to Coroner Andre. Later they
were removed to the Miller morgue and
an inquest was held this morning.
The remains were those of man
probably forty years of age and there
is no doubt but that his death result
ed from large dose Of PARIS green
taken with suicidal intent. The time
Of the man s death as well as any facos
in regard to his Identity seem to be
shrouded in mystery. Many people
called at the morgue Friday night i'd
this morning, but none Of them could
Identify the man although several peo
PIE declared that they had seen the
dead man about Kenosha during the
past few days.
The man s body is terribly emaciated
and this gave the idea that the unfort-
innate had all but starved to ueath be-
fore he took the fatal dose. When the
remains were brought to the morgue
it was thought that the man had been
the victim of q murder. There were
several bad wounds about the eyes Ind
on the right side Of the forehead was
a wound which appeared to be from
a thirtytwo calibre revolver Later
when Coroner Andre and his assistant
DR.. George E. Thompson made an ex-
animation Of the body it was found
that these wounds were not bullet
wounds as had been supposed, but had
been caused by the man falling on the
rubbish along the bank of the river.
1t is thought that the man had been
dead for many hours when found. His
body was lying with the hands and feet
in the waters of the river just about
a hundred feet north of the bridge, but
the weeds and trash had so concealed
the body that it would have been
hard matter for it to be seen by peo-
pie passing on the bridge. The man s
coat and cap and a bottle partially
filed with solution of Paris green and
water were found some distance from
where the body was found. 1t is evil
dent that the man had suffered terri
bly, before death came and it is thought
that he must have thrashed about in
the weeds and rubbish for some time.
1t is thought that this explains the
wounds on his head and other parts
of the body. The coroner and his as.
sistant made a post norton examine
ton Of the remains late Friday night
and found large amount of the poi
son in the stomach of the man
Every possible effort is being made
to identify the man, but no one seems
to be able to give the officials any in
formation which will lead to a positive
Identification. The remains are those
Of man forty years Of age. He is
about five feet five inches tall has gray
hair, smooth face and weighs in the
neighborhood of 100 pounds. He APP
pears to have been a professional man
rather than one engaged in manual la
Tor. The clothing Of the man was Of
fine texture, but badly worn. He had
black suit with Prince Albert coat
and wore white cap.
The man had evidently planned to
Feep his identity secret as there was
not a single scrap of paper in his poe
kets and nothing by which his identi-
ty could be learned. The only thing
found in his pockets was an old pocket
book and this contained just ~ cents.