Monroe News-Star - Deadman Identified as J. W. McClellan

Date: Dec. 1999
Submitted by: Lora Peppers 


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The Monroe News-Star
Saturday, August 20, 1910
Page 5, Column 4

DEAD MAN IDENTIFIED.
Detective Roscoe, of Shreveport, Exhumed the Body.
Shreveport, Aug. 20. - The body of the unknown white man which was found in 
the culvert of the Kansas City Southern tracks in the rear of St. Vincent's 
Convent, has been exhumed and identified, through the efforts of Detective 
A.L. Rascoe, the only official who would take it upon himself to remove the 
clothing from the body and search it.
The body was that of J.W. McClellan, an apiarist, or honey grower, who 
lived somewhere in the country surrounding Shreveport. He has been shipping 
honey into Shreveport and his identification was brought about through 
papers the detective found in his pocket, relative to the shipment of honey 
and receipts from a cooperage company, etc.
A bill of lading of the Kansas City Southern Railroad Company from 
Frierson, La., for a barrel containing 400 pounds of honey, which Detective 
Rascoe found at the depot yesterday, was in his pocket.
In addition to this, Officers Nolen and Craddock remembered the man, the 
latter having arrested him Saturday night for being intoxicated and 
identified the effects which were found upon the corpse as those they had 
taken off of the man.
The theory is now that the man may have been struck by or fallen off a 
train of the Kansas City Southern, badly injured himself and then crawled 
into the culvert where he died: However, there is a possibility that he was 
struck on the head and robbed also. The police are still investigating.
An effort to locate his people, if he has any, is now being made by the 
police. The agent at Frierson, La., was communicated with by Detective 
Rascoe and told the officer that McClellan had shipped the honey from there, 
but he personally did not know him.

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