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Show FELL TO HIS DEATH. The Hodr of an 1 nkoown Wanderer Found at the KnuUloril. The workmen employed at the Knuts-ford Knuts-ford were confronted by a ghostly "sleeper" when they returned to the hotel at H o'clock this morning and began be-gan to distribute themselves through the giant building. Upon tho platform of the elevator that rested on the basement was the pulseless frm of a (lead man who had been discovered a few moments before by a boy who had been making a trip through the various floors. The discovery dis-covery was promptly reported toOllicer Donovan who notified Coroner Harris. That official reported on the scene and a hasty examination was made of the corpse. Not a scrap of paper, however, how-ever, was to be found that would shed the feeblest light on the identity of tho unknown man whose bodv was reduced to a mass of flesh aud bones. No oue was there to tell the story of his death or how it had oc-eurrod. oc-eurrod. That was left to conjecture aud to inference. The coroner's theory was that the man had been prowling through the various Moors at some hour of the 1 1 1 1 1 1 and that he hud unwittingly wandered into tho mouth of the elevator shaft. He way havo fallen from any one of the Honrs, although al-though tho shafored condition of the limbs and trunk would indicate that it was from an upper one. Removed to livans' undertaking establishment, the body was divested of its apparel and a further se.aroh made for something that would shed light on its identity. There was but oue thing. On tin, li.ft. arm Ir.'teed in Indelible fluid was a tombstone overhung by the sobbing sob-bing branches of a weeping willow. I.' pon the stone whs graven tho words, "Jack Port." This was all, and it will probably bo the only tombstone at the sepulcher to which he has been untimely summoned. An inquest was set for 4 o'clock this afternoon. . |