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An inquest was held last Wednesday on the mutilated remains of a body found under the store house on Mr. Strange’s wharf. The floor of the store wanted repairs, and on taking up some planks for that purpose, the body was discovered resting across a beam in the wharf. It was at first taken for the carcase of some animal, but a closer inspection showed that it was the remains of a human body. The head, legs and arms, except one bone, were wanting, leaving nothing but the trunk and thighs, which were shrivelled, wasted, and partly eaten by rats, and without a particle of dress. It was thought to be the remains of a man who was missing and supposed drowned in the fall of 1840, and that the body had been washed on the beam when the water was high, and left thereon when the wa- 1 ter fell last summer and fall, and that the head j and limbs had decayed, and dropped off for want of support. As there was no evidence, nor any means of identifying the body, the jury returned a verdict of M Found dead.”
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Kingston Upper Canada Herald
Kingston, Ontario, CA
Tue, Mar 01, 1842
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