Mystery Body Washes Ashore

Yesterday afternoon the body of a man washed ashore on the beach in the rear of the cracker factory. The fact was reported to Coroner Dawson, who at once ordered the body taken to O. C. Shorey & Co.'s undertaking establishment. The body had the appearance of having been in the water for a long time. All the flesh was eaten from the head, leaving nothing but the skull attached to the vertebrae. The flesh was also gone from the hands and one foot. On the body was a dark suit of clothes, blue overshirt, red undershirt, whiskers, shaker socks and low cut blue canvas shoes. The man was of medium height, and had in his pockets an empty buckskin purse, knife, cigar holder and a piece of sole leather. The features, of course, were unrecognizable, and nothing could be found on the body to establish the identity of its former possessor. The remains are supposed to be those of the man who was seen to walk off of W. D. Scott & Co.'s wharf on the night of February 24th, as the body washed ashore within a hundred feet of where that man was drowned. The remains will be buried at the expense of the county today.