Show FINDING OF BODY OPENS A MYSTERY Dead Man Discovered on the f Bank of Weber River I I Near Ogden TWO GASHES IN HIS SKULL c C Muy c Ha e Fallen Prom Front the Railroad fl Bridge or Been by hy i Train an tn n fl Bureau iO Ogden Oen clen Dec 23 With With two ugly ly gashes In tho the kulI the lifeless hod body of an nn unknown man the cause of ci iwho Uio o den death Is a a. complete mystery to local sheriffs sheriff's department was the hanl banks 5 of the Weber riv rl nv- nv rr N er Imm Immediately north of or the tile Rio Hlo Grande Granile Western bridge In Wilsons Wilson's Inne lanC at ot 1 I o'clock this afternoon by hy J. J B. B Ellis a n le resident of that section of oC tho thu city The body lody was waR brought to this city h by Deputy Sheriff George o RIchey and Undertaker quist shortly after its discovery Ico cr and o el every effort has been made to ascertain the tho man man Identity and anil tho the cause of his death cleath Thus far faril Ml il 11 efforts have been without success The body Is that of or a man about 55 riG y p years Qt ars of or ago age light ht complexioned d sandy an y mustache and about five eight Inches In Ih height Was ns lie ire Hit lilt By Train From the manner of or discovery r and the location of the body hody about the only conclusion arrived cd at by the of officers officers or- or is that the man was Injured on the railroad bridge gc either by a train iraln trainor or b by a n. hand of or another or 01 that he ho fa fell from nm the bridge to the river bank hank I Surroundings s prove provo that after his in injury in- in Jur jury the man crawled to th the opposite ide of tho the river rl anti and the fact that his clothes were wet bear out this theor theory The general opinion seems to bo be that tho the man was hit by a n train while on the bridge and thrown n to the sand below helo His Ills hat was missing entirely entirely entirely en en- and anel his coat cont was lying he beside l le the fhe hoel body IOl Not Net ron Long in River The Tho hod body was in a n. splendid condition condi condi- tion Lion so It Is not possible that the man could have been In the river for any th en-th of time and ani the fact that his coat oat had been removed and was lying beside e the bo body also dispels s an any pos- pos of his having ha been in the Iver er for any length of ot time A phy- phy clan who examined the bod body is of i 1 ho lie opinion that the thc man died there luring Juring the night from the effects of I Us wounds wounds exhaustion and anti cold The body has been removed lemo to Lind mists mist's s undertaking establishment hero bero it If is being prepared for burial pending an investigation Ime as ns to the thenan's thenan's nans nan's Identity anti and the cause causo of or his tenth leath The gashes on the mans man's head re rc of a triangular shape and appear o ro 0 have been inflicted b by a blunt in in- in strument One of the wounds is iR to toward toward to- to ward the front of the skull and ond the theother I Iother other J Is somewhat back from front the top fop of if the head An Inquest An-Inquest will bo ho held ne ld I tomorrow |