The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-02-01
DEAD BODY IS FOUND
GREAT CASH ON HEAD
Tragic Death Of Will Scram-
lin of Canada
ALL NIGHT IN The COLD
Pool of Blood Where Man Was
Discovered: Slipped On
The Ice
From Saturdays Daily.

from saturdays DAILY.
Dead and with a. great cash on the
head, by a frozen pool of blood the
body Of Will Scramlin, real estate
dealer of Weyburn, Saskatchewan,
Canada, was found in the alley al
most back of the city hall building
this morning. The gruesome discov-
cry was made about 1890 this morn
ing by Ray King, employed at the
Hodges saloon.
Scramlin was about fifty years old.
He and his wife and their son, Earl,
who is a Canadian soldier in the avi-
alton service, came to Mankato to
visit relatives. Scramlin and his wife
have been visiting n Mankato at the
home of Mrs. Scramlins sister, Mrs.
w. H. ShufeIt, 1873 Clark street The
son, Lieutenant Scramlin, was in
Mankato yesterday but had gone TO
Amboy to visit his grandmother, Mrs.
Bartholomew. He will shortly leave
for France.
Was With Companions.
Will Scramlin and some companions
were around drinking rather heavily
yesterday afternoon. By evening
Scramlin was pretty well under the
influence of liquor. w. Fl. Shufelt in
the afternoon tried to get him to go
to the Shufelt home so he could sober
up. Scramlin would not go home.
Then his nephew, George Shufelt, in
the evening tried the same thing,
but without success. 81
Will Scramlin was seen at hotel
and around the streets. Where he
went after that is uncertain, but some
time in the night he wandered around
back of the Hodges saloon, where he
was found dead this morning. It
looked as if he had slipped on a big
mass of ice, struck his head against
something hard and never got up
again.
He is survived by his wife and four
children. Two of these are grown
up. One is Lieutenant Scramlin, and
the other is Edith Scramlin, nurse in
a hospital at Weyburn. There are
two younger children, Irene and
Edith. The mother of the deceased is
living in Minneapolis.
Deputy Coroner Dahl received
iSPoit VI tiIC SdSS tlllS ana
the body was removed to a local un-
dertaking establishment for further
investigation.
Appeal Made to Policeman.
George Shufelt, nephew of the dead
man, stated today that he had asked A
policeman to help him take his uncle
nome and the policeman had refused
Shufelt said he made it plain to the DO
lIceman that his uncle was under the in
fuence of liquor, that he was irving to
get his relative home and could not man
age him. The policeman, Shufelt said,
made the statement that he had no au- !
thority to help take the uncle home.
This was about ten o'clock in the even
ing about one block south of the police
station. The nephew said he had man |
aged to take his uncle from the Saul
paugh corner as far as the Ford garage.
Then the uncle refused to go farther. but
turned around and went back While
they were on the way back, the nephew
said, he made his appeal to a policeman.
When the latter refused, the nephew
said he gave it up.
Deputy Coroner G. A. Dahl made ar
rangements to hold a post-mortem ex-
animation this afternoon in the Kelly un-
dertaking rooms. A gold watch and a
little money were found on the person
OF the dead man. This made it pretty
plain that the dead man was not the
victim of foul play