Show SOLDIER IS FOUND WITH CRUSHED SKULL NEW EW YORK Jan 27 W With With th his skull fractured and a bruise o over or r the ri right bt temple the tho body of Thomas Kiernan a private of company E g infantry U. U S. S A. A was found last night in iii the lower hay bay in a pool of backwater How tho the soldier met macI death has bas not been cleared up iii lint hilt t the tho o theory thory is iR advanced that he hc was returning returning return return- ing to Governors Governor's where the Twelfth infantry i if ju stationed when ho was heM held up robbed and mur murdered and hi his hod body thrown into tho the river was wag 48 18 yare old and had seen twenty four years years' service R Re Recently Recently Re- Re c he received leave o of absence and eaton came to New York A fler sergeant of his regiment said that tho the dead lead man was temperate and had saved considerable monc money |