Arizona republican., 1911-11-18
MESA
UNKNOWN WANDERER
 DIED BY CAMP FIRE
Victim of Exposure and Alcoholism Passed Away Near Mesa Stock
 Yards Wednesday Night.

Early yesterday morning, as (. R Morse was on his way to the stock yards, he was accosted by hobo who was getting his breakfast at fire just east of the corral fence. with the statement that dead man was lying there. Mir. Morse at once noti- fled Justice Irwin, who empanelcd a jury and repaired to the stock yards There it was found an unknown man, who had been around town for sev- cral days trying to sell ''phoney" jew elry. had died some time during the night The corpse lay on the ground dirty. unkempt and uncared for. At that time eight other knights of the road were preparing their coffee in an old. smoke blackened tin bucket one of the number had lain in jail during the night. because of drunk enness. and some of the others had slept in a box car, the remainder in some hay pile. The body of the dead man was searched. His total worldly goods consisted of several large imi tation gold rings. one in his pocket and the others in a small bag at tached to his pantaloons. Not a cent of money was found on his person. James Casey. a paralytic hobo, Chas Clark. Frank Casey and Thomas Ken Dedy (the latter a very respectable looking elderly man). were examined. They all testified that when they gathered at the hobo corner Thurs day evening. the dead man was there fa hn n from a black bottle containing what appeared to be alcohol. It was also shown that Frank Casey had a bottle of alcohol. diluted with water. and that all of them drank from his bottle. They said they did not drink from the bottle O. the dead man. for the latter kept pretty well to himself and preferred his own brand of liqIor The testimony showed that the party had spent two or three hours nf t,ie evening in singing and dancing, in which the unknown took no part He was then feeling sick and vomited several times. Between 10 and - o'clock the party sought q place to sleep. leaving him sitting bY tha fire Clark was the first to return to the camp yesterday morning, ard stated that when he arrived lie founl the stranger lying on the ground Gead. When Mir Morse uaSSed Clark called his attention to the corpse Al. claimed they did not know the mans name or where he was from 1arry Judd. whose boys had ben attracted to the camp by the singing anI dane ing, could throw no light on the mat ter of the mans death. He lad called his bo.s in. anC there had been i,p row. so far as he knew.
 The only marks on the I.1dy were a couple of bruises on the nrci; and cheek 7v:tl. d small cut on one eye lid, w;ii"h vas apparently made WI. the man was d.-ing. pr. M w. Irack was called and made an exam. inatior. In his opin.on there had been no violence to produce death.
 The rry. after obtaining all the evidence .Jnssible. brought in d verdict that the body was that of an un- known man, and that death occurred from exposure and alcoholism. follow ing d prolonged period of drunken peSS.
 The jury was composed of II. F. Morris, foreman: Ernest June. Charles kehner C. M. Pomcroy, b. E. bod son. sam Hall.
 The description of the unknown man is as follows: Five feet. six inches tall; weight. 150 pounds: light brown hair, and heavy light colored blue eyes. on the left arm is tattooed a heart and anchor. with the letters "J. E.; on the right arm q rosette. Relatives of the dead man may be able to identify him from this description. The body was buried in the Mesa cemetery by w. A. Burton X Sons. undertakers