Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-03-08

pOShNboVJA NOutaiuk buIco VEINS II hFkU
Express Company money orders FOX
800 each, dated at Los Angeles, Cal. A.,
December 8, 1908, and made payable
in each instance to Walter F. Schultz.
The book also contained a $40 note, a
81 note and 81 note. In one of HE
pockets vas IL cents In change.
The police also found on the body q
letter presumably from the dead msa's
sister, and three cards, one bearing the
name of Mira. Altman Hume Gillette,
another vas q business card of The
Bsrkely, 223 moth Capitol street, Wash
ingtOD, aud the third was marked ~.
l.. Burcb, carriage builder, Washing
ton, d. o.
The Letter resds as folloWs:
"SiOux City, IoEa, Dec. 30, 1908
"Desr Walter: You surprised Us
greatly when you asked us where we
thought you would next land-Oubs or
Chicago. We wondersd.whether you took
! sea voyage up to Washington or went
B by train. We CLEANED 8 great deal out
OF your descriptive letters, and enjoyed
them immensely. Have you any idea
where you will settle? Will you return
to Obicago? Alphorse is located within
nine minutes walk of Sears.Roebuck
Oompsny's store. Brother bought a
suit OF clothing the other day for $25.
he is doing well. As ever,
"ELLEN DOROTHY"
The envelope OF the letter, thought TO
be from the mans sister, is postmarked
at Sioux City, Iowa, December 80, 1908,
and is addressed to "Walter Schultz,
Gen. DEL, Washington, d. O." On
one end Of the envelope was written 1914
Douglass street, Sioux City, Iowa"
The shoes we're of good quality. but
had been worn soma time. A long
black overcost of expensive make had
been stripped of every thing that would
aid in Identification. The clothing was
OF Thin blue serge and fsshiouably cut.
A soft blue aud white shirt add soft
collar bore no lsundrY marks aud some
pieces OF thread on the back of the shirt
showed where cloth label bad been
torn of.
The dead man is described as about 80
years old, feet 6 inches tall, OF muscular
build, weighing about 100 pounds, aud
with heavy brown bair aud blue eyes.
His chin and lip we're partially covered
with q beard of about two days growth.
His features were stroug and clear cut.
His hands are white aud soft of texture,
with well-kept nails. One OF the ar
ticles found in the mans overcOst pocket
has been a source of considerable specu.
lation among the police. tits q piece of
rubber tubing, about Ave feet long
aud about the size of an ordinary lead
pencil. Evidently for convenience 10
carrying it bad been rolled into coil
and tied with an old shoe-string.
The name OF Mrs. Altman Hume Gil
lette does rot appear in the Washington
directory, and though the police of that
city tried to fiud woman By that name,
their efforts were unsuccessful. No ~.
L. BuFch, carriage builder, Washington,
d. o." could be found either, bat there
is ]. A. Burcb, carpenter and builder,
Of 1922 Wisconsin avenue northwest,
who formerly was in the carriage bust
ness. When seen last night Mr.. BIrch
said be knew nothing Of the man found
dead. He did not remember having
ever given any one card of this de-
scripliou.
At the Bsfsely apar msnts, 223 north
Capitol street, no one remembered a man
by the name of Schultz, and the records
show that no person by that name hss
lived there within the past two years.
More than two years ago man by the
name Of John Schultz, occupied apart.
ments there, but his description, 1t is
asserted, does not tally with that of the |
dead man..
r. L. Mayhugh and f. @. Atkinson,
two young men Of this city, found in |
clump of bushes about so yards north |
Of where the body vas discovered, a !
fswn colored soft hat with brown band.
There was nothing in the hat to indicate
where 1t had been purchased, bat on the
inside Of the crown is dark spot about
The siza of dime, which the police be-
ieve ia blood stain.
EdSsrd PurdIs, conductor on the
Southern Railway, says be ssS man
ying in the field about 8 o'clock satur-
lay afternoon last. He thought the
nan vas drunk, and paid little atien.
ion to him.
A man named Ttops, employed Gs a
ection hand on tae SJuthern Railway,
old the police he saw a nan walking
long the railroad near the place whfis
he tody was found. Thorpe declares + o
az the mao about 9 o'clock Saturday
norniDg. aud that be fitted the descrip-
ion Of the body Of the supposed muir
erred man ia every particular.
Coroner Moore stated that be made sn
xsmiuation of The body, but be could give
10 opinion rs to whether it Was a csse
1 murder or suicide. The CASH in the
mans throat, he said, vas shout 9
nches long end 2 inches deep. II
'ould have been possible for the man to
ave inalc ed it himself aud to bsve then
un a distance of 1907 200 yards before
alling. A feature OF the case, which
oes pos seem TO bear out the suicide
beory, ia tia the oOly blood on the
lolhing was 90 The left side Of the white
Qllar, and feW drops on the under,