Cook-St. Clair County IL Archives Obituaries.....Martin, Edward 1907
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Cook County Herald, Mar 15, 1907
Cook County Herald, Arlington Heights IL
Mar 15, 1907

River Gives Up Lost Boy

Body of Lad Drowned in Chicago is Found at East St. Louis

The body of Edward Martin, 18 years old, who fell into the Chicago river at 
the foot of the Van Buren street the night of Dec. 8 while watching a fire, 
has been recovered after a search of three months. It was found hanging to a 
government bridge pier in the Mississippi river near East St. Louis. Joseph 
Martin, his father, learned of the finding of the body through an article in 
the Chicago papers, stating that the body of an unidentified boy apparently 18 
years old had been found at a steamboat landing near East St. Louis. Through 
telegraphic communication identification of the body as that of his son has 
been established beyond doubt, he says. Young Martin had tattoo marks on both 
arms and these, though the body was badly decomposed, were found by the 
police. The body had gone through the controlling works at Lockport, thence 
through the Illinois river into the Mississippi.

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