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Show Found Piiownkii.-I!y tho Ogden Jitiu tioit of Wednesday, wu leal 11 thai 011 Kiidiiy hist tho body of a man was found by Wm. ltunup in tho t-luugh 111 (iiilo'a field, about a tiiilo souih nf that city. Tho body was only clothed in it shirt and pants, but a ooat, hat and vest, had been previously found about. 11 hundred yards from tho corpse. An impiest was. hold by tho coroner, at which the following f..cla wero elicited elic-ited : Prom papers found iu his trunk at the railroad i depot, tho checks lor which wero iu his pocket, tho dead mau's name was Henri Koepko. Ho was 5 feet Kinetics high, had dark hair, goateo and moustache, and appeared to bo about 3; years of ago. Tho body was sodden from lying in tho water, and whon washed tho hair and beard oaiiio out by tho roots. Ho had a soar uuder tho chin, extending from the right jaw to within an inch of tho left ear, appearing as if a; some time his tiifoat had been cut, but tho wound had healed up again, llo was identified as tho man who arrived in Ogden from thu west on the 1-lih of May, and was found to be crazy, and taken under tho caro of tho railway oUioers, but subsequently made . his escape. The last time ho was seen alive, was on tho ltith iu.it., when he was washing his clothes in Thniims Emmet's water ditch. From a bill of goods found upon his person, it appears that he purchased a gold watch aud chain, gold shirt studs and sleeves buttons of F. Gruner, San Francisco. Tho latter articles were found in his trunks, but tho watch and chaiu were missing, lu his pockets was $50 iu gold, sUver and copper coin. Tho effects of the deceased arc in the hands of tho Coroner. There is nothing among them by which his friends can be traced. The person from whom the watch, etc., wero purchased has been written to, hut up to tho present time no reply has boon received. Tho police are on the lookout for the missing watch and chain, as the chaiu was noticed on Ivoepke when he was seeu on the lCih itist., at Emmet's ditch. . Tlio supposi tiou is that the unfortunate lunatic fell into the ditch, and, after drowning, was washed out into the slough by the rapidly running water. : |