The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1915-04-09
IDENTIFIED REMAINS OF
BODY FOUND LAST WEEK
]. {. Schultz, Step-SOn of {. N. Hatch
Is Believed To Have Met With
foul Play

Identifying the remains Of the man
found on the 29th Of March at the foot
OF the hills just west Of town, an ac
count of which appeared in last week.
Echo, proved failure until the de-
scription and some other facts con-
nected with the finding OF the body
came to the knowledge Of Mrs. E. M.
Hatch, mother Of Joseph c. Schultz,
whose second husband has been saw
filer at the Lamb-Davis mill for the
past three years. She called at the
Cascade Undertaking rooms last Friday
where the body had been kept in the
hope that identification could be es-
tablished. AS soon as Mrs. Hatch ex-
amined the remains, she unhesitatingly
pronounced them those OF her son.
The gold filings in the teeth, as we'll
as other peculiar formations of the teeth,
the clothing, and laundry marks all
helped to convince her. The trousers
conesponded exactly with the coat
that belonged to the suit which she
still had in her possession.
Another circumstance that helped
to make Identification more sure was
the finding Of lime spots on the black
shirt. A few days before he dissap-
peared, under instructions of Mr.. c.
A. Hayden, foreman al the box factory,
he did some white washing and the
black shirt he wore was covered with
white spots.
Mrs. Hatch also knew he had GER
tain knife and when it was not among
the things found she went out to the
place where the body was discovered
and in scratching around among the
leaves and trash she found the knife.
This and the laundry marks on the
clothing made Identification certain
beyond doubt.
The last remains Of the unfortunate
bow. who would have been twenty
wears old last July, were buried in the
Leavenworth cemetery last Sunday.
His mother and step father are OF the
opinion that he met with foul play.
He was in good health, wanted fol-
nothing, was of lively disposition and
always seemed to enjoy life. He was
not addicted to drink, never had any
trouble with anyone so far as can be
learned. At the time he had been
working in the Id box factory and
had nearly a hundred dollars due him.
On the 9th day of May 1914 he had
been working on his step fathers auto
and went to town to get something with
which to repair the machine. That
was the last seen OF him. He had fre-
ouently talked of going away to see
the world, and his mother told him ii
he went away before he was Il ne
could be brought back. With this in
mind his mother and step-father con-
cluded he had left in search OF adven-
ture and suffered no great uneasiness
about him, expecting that he would
write when he became OF age. The
idea of suicide is not entertained at all.
He was in the best Of health and not
given to moodiness. The conditions
under which he was found do not point
TO self Obstruction. The body was
found lying on the back under some
low thick bushes, as if it had been
dragged there to hide it from view,
There is no clew for the officials to
work on and it is scarcely probable
that the cause of Joseph c. Schultz S
death will ever be cleared up.
The story that has gained some cur
rency since the Identification OF the
BODY to the effect that Joseph c.
Schultz was in an automobile accident
in Portland in which woman was
killed is denied by the family of E. M.
Hatch.