Found Dead in the Woods

New York, 1895

The body of a man about 40 years of age, dressed in dark clothes, with congress gaiters, his head bald and a heavy brown moustache, was found laying in the woods near Maple Grove on Wednesday afternoon. He had evidently been dead twenty-four hours. There was a slip noose around his neck. It was supposed he had hung himself, but there was no mark on his neck, and he was not hanging when found. Coroner Nutt thinks there is something suspicious about the case and will order a post-mortem. The body was removed to Ruoff's morgue at Ozone Park to await identification. The man was apparently of French nationality. There was nothing in his pockets but one key.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, May 24, 1895, p. 8.