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Show ! STILL A MYSTERY. No Clue of the Identity of Sprinfrvillc's Bead Stranger Has aa Yet Been Found. "Territory of Utah, ) Spring ville Precinct, Utah County. ) "An inquisition holden at Spring-ville Spring-ville city, Utah county, on the 3d day of April, A. D. 1895, before O. H. Berg, coroner of said county, upon the body of a male person whose name is unknown, un-known, there lying dead by the jurors, whose names are hereunto subscribed. 'The said jurorB upon their oathB do say that said unknown person came to his death on or about February Febru-ary 12, 1895, by some means unknown to this jury. ". P. Bbinton, W. S. Hall, p. Bulk ley." "Attest: O. H. Bebg, Coroner." Such is the verdict of the coroner's coron-er's jury after making an extended, j thorough anil very careful investiga tion of all the circumstances surrounding surround-ing Springville's latest mystery. The unknown man is buried, and very likely hia identity will never be known. It ,was thoughl for a time that the man had been stabbed, but that theory has now been abandoned. A hole very much resembling a cut by the blade of an ordinary pocket knife was found in the dead man's breast about two inches above the pit of the stomach stom-ach and to the right of the heart, but it did not penetrate past the breast bone and there was no sign of blood having oozed out of the hole, neither was the vest shirt nor under garment torn or cut. It is presumed that the aperture was nothing more than a crack caused by moving the dry body which was considerably shriveled up and decayed de-cayed in the region of the breaBt. The man undoubtedly died in great a?ony, as his body was twisted around tree twigs and his fists were gripped as one gripa wen he is Buffering mortal pain. His h-.t was found some fifty yards or farther above him, with the crown entirely trn out, and bfttween the body and the hat the crown was found torn in shreds. Hib overcoat was found some yards away from him, as though after great suffering he had laid down to rest from h s pains and they bad come on him again, causing him to roll and get twisted among the twigs as he was. Certain circumstanc33 have led some to believe the man was demented. He had his money crowded into his shoe in such a way that it must have hurt his foot; his handkerchief was used in a peculiar way; a crazy man often tears his hat or his hair, and it seems that a sane man would not take off his overcoat over-coat at night-time in midwinter. It may be that h , being a stranger, got lost in the mountains, and as a result became demented. No one knows. |