Show A GRUESOE O OHI TRAGEDY Awful Death of an Old Recluse Re-cluse in the Little Town of Binkley i I DIED OF HYDROPHOBIA I Doubtless Bitten by His Pet St Bernard nn i I Realizing That Madness Was Coining Coin-ing on lie Chains Himself to the Post and Throws Aivaj the Key of the Padlock Xo Cine to the Old Fellows Identity Thirteen Thousand Thou-sand Dollars Found Under the Floor I I CLEVELAND 0 Oct 4 Details of a gruesome tragedy in the little town I of Hinkley in Medina county on Saturday Sat-urday have been received here Nearly twenty years ago there appeared ap-peared in Hinkley a stranger of whom nothing was known His name was Bernard Sherman The inquisitive country folk after a year or more of curiosity left the man undisturbed m the solitude of an old hovel which he I had rented in the lonesome outskirts of I the hamlet The hut gradually became be-came surrounded with an air of mystery mys-tery The dweller rarely visited the village and then only for the necessaries neces-saries of life which he seemed to have plenty of money to pay for One night in the early part of last week several boys were passing the place when they were terrified by prolonged and bloodcurdling human ravings The old man was never again seen alive Afraid of the scoffs of the incredulous in-credulous the boys held their silence but the deserted appearance of the old hut finally attracted attention and an Investigation Was started There was only one room In the house and when the door was broken In the old man was found lying dead chained to a post with a locked chain The condition con-dition of the body told of a death struggle most horrible and the doctors doc-tors ascribed death to hydrophobia Just outside of the hovel was found the body of a big St Bernard dog the sole companion of the recluse the beasts death having bee caused oy an ax wound In the head The supposition is that the brute went mad and bit his master The old man realizing that death was inevitable inevi-table had locked himself in when he felt the madness coming on chained himself fast locked his fetters with a padlock and threw the key away Burled Bur-led under the floor of the hovel was found 513000 in sold There was nothing noth-ing that could shed light on the mya tory of his life In one pocket was found an ocean steamer check from Liverpool dated November 9 1S74 and ion the wall hung an oil miniature of a woman and a child The body was given decent burial |