The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1914-05-08
BODY Of DUDLEY IS
GWEN UP BY RIVER
WEIGHTED WITH ROCKS 1T WAS
FOUND AT OREGON CITY.
Portland Friends Believe He
Suicided After Worrying Ov-
er Mexican Mines.

The mystery surrounding the dis
appearance Of Marshall s. Dudley,
brother Of e. A. Dudley of this city,
" no suddenly dropped out of sight at
Portland. February 2. was cleared up
Tuesday morning at Oregon City,
where his badly decomrosed body was
found in the Willamette river and
identified by picture of little girl
iu his watch case.
The picture was that OF Hazel
Miller, aged 10 years, and had been
placed in tha watch nine years ago.
The girl, whose family we're old
friends of Mr.. Dudley, saw in the
newspapers the account Of finding a
body in the river and W nen the picture
was mentioned, it was she who made
positive Identification possible.
The body was dressed in black
serge suit and gray overcoat. white
shirt and collar, and on 1t was the
watch and pair of gold-rimmed spec
tacles. No money or valuables other
than the watch were found. Three
sacks of rocks were tied atout the
waist and the overcoat pockets were
full OF rocks.
The body was found floating in
about % feet of water. An inquest
was held and the ooroner's jury re-
turned verdict of deaf from drown
ing with suicidal intent. The body
was Immediately buried, as it was in
the last stages Of decay. No marks
of violence or injury were disclosed on
the body.
Portland friends of Mr.. Dudley te-
lieve that if the case is one of suicide,
death was chosen ty him through de-
spondenoy over the fact that the Mex
ican war kept him from developing a
miDe in Mexico. 10 which he aud a
| group of Portland men we're interest
| ed. Mr. Dudley was mining en-
| gineer, and for many years was SEN
ator Bourne's mining expert and con-
fidential advisor in the management
OF mining properties.
Last summer he visited at the homa
of his brother here, and was very op-
| timistie over the eventual results he
expected from his Mexican mining
property. The mine is the fabulously
descr ibed Nina La Paloma. Ia Sonora,
150 miles across the line. It has been
called the Mine of the Million Shafts,
and has wonderfully romantic his
tory back of 1t.
The last name comes from the fact
that the property in spots is honey
ooInbed with openings or burrows,
| just large enough to admit the body
| of man to crawl In. Legend has IL
| that this is the long lost mine from
which the Aztec Indians obtained the
nuggets Of gold, In the time Of the
Spanish occupation.
1t was Eve years ago that Mr.. Dud
ley made a find Of gold nuggets on the
bedrock of this mine, and interested
Portland friends in the proposition
One OF his possessions Of recent years
| was bottle full of little pieces oi
gold from this mine.
| Portland men interested in the com
pany. say he constantly brooded over
the Mexican trouble. To one sborI
time before be disappeared, he spoke
of new developement in the Mexican
war situation as 'tprolonging BIZ
agony"
| 1t is admitted that Indication
| point to suicide but the theory Of
murder also exists. Miss Ida Arnesou
who has charge of Senator Bourne
office in Portland, scouts the idea o.
suicide. She informs Portland news
paper that just Eefore Mr.. Dudley
disappearance, he bought some new
clothes and had considerable amour
of money on his person. She fifml,
relieves he was robbed and then mur
Il daFad