Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-01-21
MAcROCkI DEATH
STILL A MYSTERY
Coroner's Jury Able to Get Lit
tie Satisfactory Evidence
Regarding Il.
FOB AND RING ARE MISSING
Lack % Bruises On Body Indicate He
Was Killed and Thrown
Under Wheels % Train.

While EVIDENCE points % foul play.
the coroner'9 Jury which looked into
the death Of John NaErocki. the YOUNG
Russian whose body was found on the
Twelfth street crossing OF the Buriins-
ton road. TUESDAY Tnoruiug. vas unable
TO get enough facts 90 warrant any
Ting other than an open verdict The
pclicn all be left % continue the In
ye8tiG1tiOn.
4. " Esterd1hl. the undertaken
Who picked up the remains and pre-
pared them for burial. was one % tha
important Vritneszcs wednesday az
teruoou. lie said that though the
body Was BADLY muuiated BY the
Wheels % the train. there were no
marizs or bruises such as should have
appeared ~ living BODY were struck
and dragged a. this one undoubtedly
was The fufercuce g. that Nagrocki
was killed and his body placed on the
track. after death haz taken place.
bruises do not becorve d.sccioTed. 10 IS
explained. because the circuiatiou %
blood has ceased
MemLera o. the crews % the only
two frsie1t trains which passed The
SPOT after EaRructi vas last seen alive
and before. hi8 remains were found
were atso examined. The clrlEeers
and frcmcn were certain that they
struck no person iu this city. and eur
thermore that there was no body on
the track I'm front q the engine e.
either unse. u this were true. 30
Erccrls remains must have bceL
thrown under the wheels % The train
after the engine had PASSED. One .
tralr PASSED 40 1915 a. IN and The .
other ~ $40 a. m
5osy stm Warm.
40 evidence whatever showing
where Nazrucf-l was from the time he I
Was last seen or the Dawchiusid and
AdDmitis saloon about II O'Clock tin
his remains were found could be sc-
cured The undertaken stated that be
found the body slightly warm az G
O'Clock. which from his experience I'm E.
handIin~ cases % that kind would
lead him 10 think that death had TAX
en- place two hours earlier. This
leaves a period OF ave or six hours
dGriuE which the movements of the
Russian have not 40 far been traced
Ben DlWchinsid. who conducts a sa-
loon at 1C2s Railroad avenue. and
Charles Adomiiis. who operatcs the
iuiOOu az 120s Third avenue. both
swore they saw Naerocsi about II
5cIcck. The latter said the man was /
not drunk and that he wanted o. boT- ,
row a dollar and was turned down.
Adonitis admitted that NagrCcki had ,
eicphoued % him early Monday even ,
ng. asking II there vera any girls az
iis place. and said he answered that :
here were three. intending the matter
- n Joke Later, on being recalled.
ie ACKNOWLEDGED that NagrOcki had
IN one for two occasions been IN his
.ome over the saloon Ia company with {
woman pamed Alice whom he had {
-nown for some time. \ re.lr door OF q
he Atonitis saloon opens upon the C
burlington tracks only a few feet from c
be- place where the body was found a
Js~eiry Missing.
The police consider u significant
nat the dead mans watch fob and =
Ing were gone when the body was dis
overed DawchtnsiSi testified that the
cad man had n fob and ring when he :
Nv him last II is supposed that he y
IsO had a watch. though he did not
30 "a. r
The verdict the coroner's Jury re- Q
Irucd was thas the man came to his
sath IN n manner unknown 10 mem
RS OF that body.