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tween them,—Chicago Trib.Wilkinson’s Body Found.The body of Boyd Wilkinson was found , yesterday morning (Friday) about eleven j o’clock, by Mr. John Quaintancc, who had j been on the search for five days. It had lodged against the limb of a tree, and was head and shoulders out of water. The locality of the discovery is in “fforse-Skoe' Band,” and probably three to four miles, by river, from where Wilkinson got in. He! was discolored andswolleD,as a body would naturally be after exposure to the action of the water !or nine or ten days.Dr. McGovern, County Coroner, and a jury of medical gentlemen held an inquest in the afternoon, but we are not officially informed at what verdict they arrived, but probably, simple death by drowning.—Ioica City Reporter, 22d. ■.The following, from the Reporter of Mon- j .day, is the verdict of the Jury:Coroner’s Inquest. State of Iowa,Johnson Co. An inquisition holden on the bank of the Iowa River, in Johnson Co., on the 21st day of May A. D. 1S5S, before C. C. McGovern, coroner of said County, upon tho body of Boyd Wilkinson, there lying dead, by the jurors whose names arc hereto subscribed.The said jurors upon their oaths do say,: that from the evidence before them, they believe the said Boyd j Wilkinson came to his death on the 11th day of May, A. D. j 1858, by drowning, caused by the felonious acts of F. M. Irish’ Henry Gray, A. Curtis, Samuel Shelladay, Daniel Marshall, CharlesDow. - Rawson, Brown,Phillip Clark, James Taylor, John McGuire, Peter Conboy, and others unknown to the jurors, about thirty-five persons in all. Said party having seized and with a strong cotd tied the arms of the said Boyd Wilkinson behind his back, forced him by threats and violence inte the river, thereby causing the death of the said Wilkinson. In testimony whereof the said jurors have hereunto set their hands the day and year aforesaid.J. Norwood Ci.ark7 J. R. IIartsock,J. N. Seydel.Attest, CHAS. C. Me GOVERN,Coroner of Johnson Co.
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Davenport Daily Gazette
Davenport, Iowa, US
Wed, May 26, 1858
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