The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-10-04
Unidentified Body is Found Floating in Lake
Michigan Just Off the Lighthouse
Pier This Morning.
MAY BE FROM FRUITER FORTELLE
Officials Investigate Possibility That Drowned Man
May Be a Member of the Crew OF the
Inflated Fruit Boat.

/ lieved to have gone to the bottom of
! the lake in a severe storm more than
week ago.
The body was taken at the direction
/ of Coroner Truman T. Parker to the
Hansen Morgue on Park avenue. Off
Gals at Milwaukee were notified of the
discovery of the body 1t is expected
that persons who knew the members
of the crew of the ''Forelle" vii! come
to Kenosha today to establish whether
or not the body is that of one of The
members of the crew of that ship.
May Be Lake Murder.
! Coroner Parker declared also that
the man might also have been vic
| tim of fight on board some other ship
| from which he had been scuttled by
the members of the crew. The muck
| les on the left hand were splis, which
! injury might have been received in a
| fight. There was also cut on the
head just behind the ear, which also
might indicate that the man was muir
dered These injuries also might have
been received by a member of the crew
of the 'Forelle' as the ship most GER
tAinly was badly buffeted by the waves
and if the body is that of member Of
the crew of the ship he might have
been struck by the ship when he jump
ed into the lake as the boat went down.
In any event, the finding of the body
brings mystery which the officials
here are attempting to solve.
In Water Several Days.
| The body, floating face downwards,
was first sighted by an employee Of the
Simmons company, who notified the
coast guard station Immediately. Coast
Guardsman Prattepy-who was on duty
at the time, took the station cutter and
went Immediately to the place desig-
mated and pulled the body out of the
water. 1t was taken to the coast guard
station and held there pending the or
ders of the coroner.
| Opinion differs as to the length of
time which the body has been in the
water. The feet are badly eaten by
the waves giving rise to the belief that
the body may have been in the lake
longer than the time when the "For-
ellie" disappeared A blood clot around
| the left eye and the condition of parts
of the body covered by clothing would
Indicate that the body had not been
in the water long period of time.
Dressed as Deck Hand.
The man was dressed much like a
deck-hand on a lake boat. He wore a
blue worsted suit of course texture.
The coat was tightly buttoned around
his neck. His shirt was white with
purple stripes. He had worn no shoes
and the stockings had been partly
washed away by the water. a2
/ He appears to have been about As
years of age, was bald-headed with
hair tinged with grey around the edge
es. His weight was probably about 160
pounds. ~
The theory was advanced that if he
were a member of the crew of the
"Forelle" he would have worn an OIL
skin, such as seamen wear in a storm,
Against this theory others declared
that in such a\storm any who jumped
into the waves to. battle for his life
would have thrown away any oilskin
coat as it might hinder him in fighting
the waters.
Although there was no proof that
! the man was from the fruit ship, the
local coast guard station, because
of the find, renewed its search for 9TH
er bodies from the ship in thee belief
chat the lake might give up more of
its dead if indeed the man came from
the Forelle. There were five men in
the crew of the ship and men who have
sailed the lakes declare that the fury
OF the storm was such that none could
have lived.
Searching of the records at the life
saving station revealed that several
weeks ago man was reported to have
jumped off the Christopher Columbus"
when it was several hours out of Mil
here this morning may be that of this
waukee bound for Chicago. 1t is pos
sible that the body found in the lake
man.