Whiteside County IL Archives News.....Dead Body Found-A Mystery September 19, 1883
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Clinton Daily Herald September 19, 1883
Clinton Daily Herald, September 19, 1883.

DEAD BODY FOUND-A MYSTERY

On Sunday, Sept. 9, while gunning on the Illinois side of the river, opposite
Clinton, they discovered among the brush wood that had been left there by recent
high water, the decomposed body of a man of medium height, dressed in a woolen,
brown checkered suit, with No. 7 shoes. The skull, a well formed one, had fallen
from the trunk, and the gaping mouth revealed nearly a full set of teeth in good
preservation, two of the upper front teeth having been filled with gold filling.
In the dead man’s vest pocket was found a tooth brush and two pencils, but no
papers or valuables were found on his person.

This “find” was at once reported to the parties in Clinton, but no action was
taken in the matter until last Monday, when Mr. C. G. Bundy was passing up
Second Street on his way to Lyons, and overheard a conversation about the body,
between E. J. Everett, groceryman, and Joseph and John Rush. After inquiring
into the particulars of this case this citizen went to Fulton and reported his
information to Deputy Sheriff Fay, who telegraphed the Whiteside county coroner
and a jury was at once empanneled, and an inquest held. The verdict of the jury
was the man had come to his death from some cause to them unknown.

This is the third body found on the islands opposite Clinton in the past four
months.


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