# Butte Inter Mountain, 14 April 1903, page 1: Dead body in a barrel

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The Butte Inter Mountain front page of 14 April 1903 carries an Associated Press dispatch from New York on a man's body found in a barrel on East Eleventh Street.

Front page of the Butte Inter Mountain, Montana, Tuesday, 14 April 1903. The headline reads "Dead Body in a Barrel: New York Has Another Murder Mystery," with the decks "Woman in Case," "Scented 'Kerchief" and "'Come, Come in a Hurry' Says Bit of Paper Found in Pocket."

The Associated Press dispatch, datelined New York, 14 April, says police found the body of a man, apparently an Italian, in a barrel on East Eleventh Street near the docks, with the throat cut and the body still warm. It lists clues: the letters "W. T." painted on the barrel, an address in pencil, a scented handkerchief, and a note in Italian in a pocket. It says the dead man's hands and shoes suggested he was not a laborer.

This is a same-day report and the victim and the killers were unknown. The page is filed as a record of the first coverage. Its speculation about the circumstances is not taken here, and its descriptions by nationality are not quoted.

## Sources

- Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83025294/1903-04-14/ed-1/?sp=1
- Library of Congress OCR text of this page: https://tile.loc.gov/text-services/word-coordinates-service?segment=/service/ndnp/mthi/batch_mthi_goldeneye_ver01/data/sn83025294/00212476833/1903041401/1072.xml&format=alto_xml&full_text=1