Body Found In the River - John Hanson - 1864

HANSON, LEIST, HALL

Posted By: Cheryl Locher Moonen (email)
Date: 5/28/2016 at 15:50:10

Dubuque Democratic Herald – May 5, 1864

Body Found In the River
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Coroner Leist held an inquest yesterday on the body of a man, name unknown, found floating in the river at the foot of Seventeenth Street. He was five feet six inches tall, had long, heavy, light sandy hair, dressed in blue woolen undershirt, check over shirt, black silk ?, brown-satinet vest,to which was tied a string with two keys, brown pants, leather purse containing $30 in greenbacks and 75 cents in silver and 2c in copper, also a pocket book containing $2.90 postage currency, .24c in postal stamps, one steam boat ticket marked “Steamer Cutter, Capt. W. O. Hall”, and over all of his clothes was a pair of overalls. He was about 25 or 30 years old, and had to all appearances had been in the water nearly three weeks. The verdict of the jury was that he came to his death by drowning.

His remains were interned in the City Cemetery, and any information desired by his relatives can be obtained from the Coroner. He is undoubtedly John Hanson, of Milwaukee, who fell overboard from the steamer Cutter near Guttenberg on the 18th of April, bound for Idaho.