Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 January 1903 — SHOT AND DYING IN AN ALLEY [ARTICLE]

SHOT AND DYING IN AN ALLEY

Unidentified Man Supplies Joliet Police With a Mystery. Joliet, 111., dispatch: Mystery surrounds the death of a well-dressed young man, a stranger In this city, whom the police found In an alley near the business center with a bullet wound in his head. He was alive, but died an hour later at the police station without regaining consciousness. The man apparently had taken every precaution to conceal his identity. Marks on his clothing had been cut out and his linen was new. One mark on his undershirt, however, had been overlooked. This gave the initials “J. E. M.” The hat bore a Denver trade mark.