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HURSDAY* AUGUSTSTRANGER DROWNEDThe North of Connersville in ths Canal. Prove* at to be Joseph J. Corcoran, of Glendale. Ohio. Body Taken to His Father’s Home for Burial-by,WaierOJULWrefnat mioutthe Early Friday morning Marshal oily 8cott Thomas was notified that an ght unknown man had drowned himself in the canal north of this city. Mr. mer Thomas, Undertaker Smith, Coroner but Terrell aud Constable John Freeman of were summoned to the plane of reo. drowning. It was here ascertained £ve irm that the drowned man had inet with brii? the three boys at the Good hart house fro„ the walked with the boys, Bennie r»raE p|e. Wainwrlght, Mart Connell and Hugh ficic der Riley, up the Big Four R. 11. track the ( be* along the aide of the Caual until by t » of they reached a point opposite the At Wilson property in which Ezra Bush the teat lives, liere the man stopped and five and jumped squarely in the canal, sank Qoyi or to the bottom and did not rise. spiei 35 The boya were terribly frightened, odd was being but lads, and hastened to the A! e’s. home of Mr. Bush and related their re8p on* awful experience. Mr. Bush hasten- publ to ed to the caual and summoned Frank Banlt; ere Kerschnor, who was passiug, to as the 1 on Sint him. They soon succeeded in Ac to finding the body and taking it out of and i a is the water, but life was extiuct and of Oi Vfr. could not be restored. placeon* 1° conversation with the boys as high aed be walked with them beforo drown* crow ive lug the men had told them his name Th Ion was Joseph Corcoran, that he lived Temi hes at Glendale, that he had spent the Mari irr night iu the C- H. . D. depot, and Al the waa ou his way to Milton to yisit his and i me aunt, Mrs. John Callahan. When ship the (be Corouer, the marshal and the even ur- undertaker arrived on the scene, an apolf he examination was had. Two letters Th , a were found in the dead man’s pock* shaki eta, a bottle of medicine and ten cents spiri nd in money.els It was thought from what had our cse* been learned from the boys that the eat nian had purposely taken his own uct | life* The letters, however, proved what he bad told the hovs to be true: that his name was Joseph J. Corco ja | ran aud that his father’s home was in Gletidale, Ohio. Oue letter wa* directed to George Corcoran, and . from its contents it was ascertained I this waa hia father’s name. A tele ,* phone message waa seut his father. .je who arrived at Connersvilie at 2:03 I p. m. aud identified his boy who had I been taken to Carl Smith’s under*I taking establishment.‘I Mr. Corcoran does not believe there was any thought on his son’s P.* I part, of taking his own life. He said * j when Joseph was bur a lad five oi aix years old he fell on the ice, greatly injuring the skull. Since (.jj that time lie had beeu bothered with brain trouble which terminated In [ * something like epilepsy; that he . ’ would at times stagger for some dis , tance and fall, aud he no doubt had such au attack which lead to his• A ^1 drowning.{** Mr. George Corcoran is a black smith at Glendale, a good and highly \ respected cllizeu. His son Joseph , being sfflicted never did auy work more tliau ohorlng, and the evening V’ before his death his mother had senthim to the drug store for wdiciueand they thought be had returned and gone to hia room and was stillaeubyheusofi.”idof»nfieorc*v*ISrealfriemwon be es can I Lodg city have ing a to th* have grade at thlt;sleeping wheu the message came, ft wafor ft was Joseph’s custom to sleep very late of mornings. The telephone announcing liis death waa the first knowledge of his absence from his home.The body was takeu Friday even * ing to Glendale for burial.Our fellow townsman, Michael Buckley Is acquainted with the be* reived family aud assisted Mr. Cor* corau in the care of the body of his •on.At tliiinga nios(still tC*mostof “Tlfectivreinfcviewsmanymon.illuslipreaclderstc The iCr)Up!lt;gavediem.*'was tl J. Wiof theWandwere ithatthougsoinblattentciatioiing.receivTheday 8 Wrigto IT
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Connersville Curier
Connersville, Indiana, US
Thu, Aug 01, 1901
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