Frozen In A Cake of Ice

New York, 1895

A Man's Body Found at Rockaway Park Beach.

Beachcombers at Rockaway Park on Monday found the body of a man imbedded in a cake of ice that had been left on the sand by the receding tide. The body was completely enclosed in the ice. It was cut out, and when it was thawed sufficiently to remove the clothing it was found that while the man had on a chinchilla overcoat of good make there was neither a coat nor a waistcoat beneath this. The overcoat was simply buttoned over his red flannel shirt. His trousers were of dark material, with stripes.

Between $20 and $25 in money was found in the pockets, but nothing that would give a direct clue to the identity of the person. The dead man was about 45 years old and weighed about 145 pounds. The body is now at the morgue in Lawrence. Several days ago a man was reported as missing from Barren Island, and it is surmised that possibly this may be that person's body.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, N.Y., Jan. 11, 1895, p. 1.