FOUND DEAD IN THE
DEPOT
C.M. Mitchell, a
student of the Topeka Medical College, was found dead early this morning in the
waiting room of the Santa Fe depot. He
had arrived on No. 2 and was on his way south.
He was siting on one of the benches in the room and about 5 o'clock
Wayman Anderson, the night janitor, attempted to arouse him. When Anderson found the man was dead, he fled
in terror and refused to touch the body.
He sought refuge in the yardmaster's office, where he told George Walker
of his discovery.
Coroner McKee was
immediately notified; he took charge of the personal effects and ordered the
body taken to effects and ordered the body taken to Edwards & Schumacher's
undertaking rooms. From a close
examination of the papers, the following is deduced:
The deceased was a
student of the Topeka Medical College, as he carried the receipts for last
year's lectures and also one for this year's course. He was a sufferer from consumption and had
gone to Albuquerque for his health. In
his pocketbook was a ticket from that place to Coates, Kansas, a little town on
the Englewood branch, where a cousin, Dr. R. C. Hutchinson, lives, and whom the
deceased was going to see. He had been
in Albuquerque about a month. He was a
nice appearing man, about 30 years of age, and apparently of pleasing address,
as he had a ticket entitling him to full privileges of the Albuquerque
Commercial Club for ten days. His
parents live at Morse, a station six miles south of Olathe, Kansas. His uncle, M.R. Mitchell, is secretary of the
Topeka Board of Health.
On the train, a
stranger noting his condition attended him all the way. He helped him off the train and into the
waiting room. He left a note, with the
direction that should anything happen, telegraph Dr. H. E. Hastings. Dr. McKee did this, and at eleven o'clock,
received a telegram directing that the body be kept till further notice, when
it will be taken to the home in Johnson county.
The Evening Kansan-Republican, Newton,
Kansas. Thursday, December 28,
1899. Page 4.
