Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-08-13
DEAD MAN PICKED UP
ON CAR FROM WHICH
A FOREIGNER LEAPED
Police Believe They Have Murder
Case 'on Their Hands; Sus-
pect Under Arrest

On the top of a freight car in the
rutherford yards of the Reading
Railway Company this morning a for
eigner was found dead. His skull
was fractured.
At the Harrisburg Hospital another
foreigner was treated for injuries he
received when he jumped from the
freight car on which the dead man
was found.
Papers show that both men were
| pound for the same destination.
The police. believe the foregoing
coincidents point to a probable muir
der. There are possibilities that there
is woman in the case.
AS the result of these suspicious
Alexander Dennock, the foreigner
is IN the Dauphin county prison, held
on suspicion of being the slayer of
the dead foreigner.
Jumped Near Palmyra
Dennock jumped from a freight
car near Palmyra early this morning
soon after the body of an unknown
foreigner was found on the same car
Dennock denies all knowledge of the
dead man, but papers taken from the
dead mans pockets tell another story.
The body was sent to the underta king
establishment of Rudolph K. Spicer,
acting coroner. An investigation is
being made.
The dead mans skull is fractured
at the back of the head. The body
was found by trainmen employed in
the Rutherford yards. In his pockets
were number of papers on one
paper was the address of Miss Lillian
Moore, 249 West Water street Mid
dletown, Pa. The other papers were
mostly in Hebrew
Dennock also had a Middletown
address, that of Stefan Trefannock,
12S Laurence street, Middletown, Pa
Dennock said he was on his way from
New York. city to Middletown in
search of work. His stories are all
mixed up, however, for at one time
he declared he did not see any per-
son on the train and at another told
or meeting stranger at Jersey City
ana riding on a freight train with
him..
Trackmen Grow Suspicious
Dennock was picked up by track
men near Palmyra. He was so badly
injured that they determined to send
him to the Harrisburg Hospital for
treatment. About $40 the dead man
was found in the Rutherford yards
and the trackmen who found Dem
mock discovered that he had jumped
from the very car on which the dead
man had been picked up. The acting
coroner, Rudolph K. Spicer, was at
once notified and he notified the city
Ipolice, who arrested Dennock at the
Harrisburg Hospital and took him to
the county Jail for safe keeping
Dennock says he jumped off the
| train because he feared he was near
the point where the railroad officers
| board the trains and arrest people.
He denies that there was any other
person on the car on which he was
riding. This statement is not believed
by the coroner Dennock nor the
dead man had any money in their
clothes.
The fracture on the dead mans
head indicates that the back of the
head was struck by some blunt in
strument. The man might have been
struck by an overhead bridge, but
the trainmen say they know of no
bridge that could have caused the ac-
cident.
Efforts to locate the residents of
Middletown named in the notes were
unsuccessful this afternoon. Den
mock does not speak English very
well and the police are arranging to
have an interpreter question him.
Some of the papers found on the
dead man indicate that he may have
| been a mission worker in New York
city. On a paper appears the name
of DR.. Francis Shestac, 119 Washing
| ton Place. Under it is Introducing
fellow worker, Shapiro" The papers
will be turned over to Coroner Jacob
Eckinger on his return from Atlantic
City tonight