Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 187, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1913 — TWO YOUNG LADIES IDENTIFY ENSLEY [ARTICLE]

TWO YOUNG LADIES IDENTIFY ENSLEY

Young Man Killed East of Pleasant Ridge Had Been A Wanderer For Many Years. r Misses Flo Conklin and Maud Jones, of Ft. Wayne, arrived in Rensselaer this Thursday: morning, to identify the corpse of Clem Ensley, the young man who was killed by a Monon train east of Pleasant Ridge some time Tuesday night. Miss Conklin is the sister of Guy Conklin, a piano and musical instrument dealer at Ft. Wayne, aqd Mr,i. Conklin is the mother of Ensley, she having been twice married. Miss Jones is a friend and accompanied Miss Conklin for companionship. -They were taken directly to the Wright undertaking parlors, where they identified the body of the young man, his face not being so badly bruised but that it was readily recognized. The absence of the first two fingers of the right hand and tattori marks on his left arm were also positive identification marks, as also was the letter which the man’s mother had written to -him the day before he was killed. Ensley was only 25 years of age, but his head was quite bald and this made him appear considerably older. The young ladies who came for the body reported that the boy had been given a fair education and that he had many advantages, being an only child. He was possessed of a love for travel, however, and had been all over the country and almost all o.ver the world. The tattoo marks on his left arm were received in England some years ago. Above a girl’s picture oft his left arm and in plain letters was tattooed “Ethel C,” but neither Miss Conklin nor Miss Jones were able to say what young lady of his ac-' quaintance' bore that name. They said that Ensley was a great reader and read good books, not trashy ones, and was an Intelligent and interesting man, but that his Wanderings had been the cause of much concern to his mother and that the outcome was not very much of a surprise. Ensley had lost his fingers some years ago while working ip a factory at Ft. Wayne. He had not been home sinee last Christmas, but had been in Kansas until recently when he returned to Hammond. He had written to tell his mother where he was and it is believed he was on his way to Ft. Wayne when he met death. His mother was at Hamilton, Steuben county, visiting relatives when she wrote and it was at that point that'the message telling of his death was sent. Mrs. Conklin had returned to Ft. Wayne, but was notified Wednesday morning. The body was shipped to Ft. Wayne, leaving Rensselaer on the 2 o’clock train, and will be taken to Pleasant Lake, Steuben county, where he was born, for burial. A son of excellent parents and having had the advantages of a good education, Ensley had chosen to wander and waste his life and had formed habits that doubtless contributed to his untimely death. A mother, who had reared him with all of a mother’s love, is brokenhearted by his terrible death, and he possessed the intellect to have been an honor and a comfort to her.