The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-10-07
HEADLESS TRUNK OF MAN FOUND
 NEAR CITY LINE
Body Long Dead Dogs Scent Death and Refuse to Leave Remains Until Calls Bring Master.

While searching for two stray cows about o'clock this morning, Albert Voigt, a farmer living on Reservoir avenue, just inside Of the town line, found the badly decomposed body of an unidentified man lying in the bed of a dry stream upon his farm. Med icaI Examiner Garlick who was called stated that the body must have lain there for more than two years.
 It is impossible to tell whether vor not death was due to foul play. but the body was lying so, that it is be- lieved that the man was either drunk or fell so as to strike his head against a stone in the stream.
 voigt arose this morning and talk ing his two dogs with him started in search of his cows. He was attracted to the body by the barking of the dogs as they stood near a clump of bushes He then called them, but they refused to leave, and he then started to investigate.
 Lying but 9. few inches from the bushes, 8 skull and a derby hat was seen. The body had decayed and was grown over with vegetation, making te practically impossible to distinguish the form until nearly upon it. It lay chest downward, directly in the bed of the stream, which was dry. Both hands had decayed from the body and were outstretched as though he had fallen headIong to the ground.
 yoight Immediately notified the po- lice department and state policeman Frank verilli, in company with Medi- cal Examiner Garlick. went to the spos. Medical Examiner GarIick searched for evidence that would lead to fndi- cations of foul play. While the skull was badly decayed, he declared there was no evidence of violence upon it or the body.
 It Is believed that the man had started across the pasture and was drunk or had stumbled and fell He may have frozen to death A pair of rubbers. evidently carried in his hand, were flung several feet ahead of him.
 He is probably 3, farmer, for the shoes are such as worn4upon a farm. His clothing was Of excellent texture the suit, probably. of brown diagonal cloth. A derby hat was found a short distance from the skull
 According to measurement taken by MericaI Examiner GarIick, the man was about 5 ft., in. zn height, stockily built There was no flesh upon the face making 1t impossible to identify.
 The supposition that he may have been assaulted is shattered by the fact that he carried upon him an Ed- gin silver wa tch such as used by rail- road men. the number of the works being 1131872. The case bore the in scription of the manufa cturer. C. w. C. Go, 9046. also a pencil, so peculiar that it was seized upon by Medical Examiner Garlick as a valuable link Tn the case Tt was about four inches in length, with a gold engraved band at the top.
 E BenjaInin H. Mead of Stamford was cles Of clothing. His underwear was of excellent balbriggan. The hat was so badly decayed that the name of the seller was not visible.
 The newspaper in which the rubbers were found, was badly decayed. but Medical Examiner Garlick stated that he would have itSearefu1ly dried in or der that the date line may be ascer- tained II did not appear to be a Bridgeport paper, but so damp was 1t that it was practically impossible to read the type. In his vest pocket the man carried a pair of spectacIes.