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Show WAS NOT IDENTIFIED. Jury In Case of Unknown Man Found Dead Near Mnrston Return Verdict of Murder. Mnrston, Wso , July 21 At the Corn, tier's Inquest held 111 this city today over tho body of tho unknown man round on tho bnnks of Hie creek east of hero eBterdoy, tho Jury brought In a verdict showing tho mnn had met death by a gunshot wound In tho head, Indicted by somo person unknown. The body wns In a very ndvnnced stnte of decomposition, nnd vvas Interred nt the spot where It wns found A Lnramle newspnper, dated Mny 21th, wns found on the body, showing thnt tho party had been deatl for some two months A vvntch and two silk hnndkerchlefs nothing that would lend to Its Identity. Tho man had vvnrn a Vnndyke henrd and the clothing was of the finest quality. qual-ity. No hat was found, nnd a theory Is advnnced that the person had been murdered and thrown Into the creek, drifting to his final resting plnce whero the hotly wns discovered yesterday. The shot which had Cause 1 death had passed through tho head from side to Bide, shattering the skull. An Investigation Inves-tigation will be mnde. The body was not that of tho sheepherder missing from Kemmerer. |