BROCKNER, Frank, died 1906

BROCKNER

Posted By: Joey Stark
Date: 3/5/2011 at 14:34:45

"The Fairfield Daily Journal"
Tuesday, July 17, 1906
Page 2, Column 2

FOUND DEAD IN A PASTURE
Mrs. George Grish (sic) Finds the Body of a Dead Man in a Pasture.

Pleasant Plain, July 17:--(Special to Journal):--This morning about 8 o'clock, while salting some of their cattle, on the Hawk farm, ten miles northeast of Fairfield, Mrs. George Grish (sic - Drish) noticed a very offensive oder (sic) from down in the pasture and supposing it to be a dead cow, drove on down to investigate, and found there the decomposed body of a man. Dr. C. W. Bailey and the coroner immediately called, and the doctor identified him as being the man he was called upon to visit on July 10, at which time he gave his name as Frank BROCKNER. Dr. Bailey said he was mentally deranged, and at times when he would become rational he would speak of his mother and brother in Chicago.

The last seen of him was on the morning of July 11, two farmers having seen him enter the pasture. He undoubtedly had been dead a week. The coroner's verdict was that he came to his death by natural causes. He has been an employe in the railroad camp, who are working on the new cut off. His body will be brought to Fairfield this evening for burial.

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"The Fairfield Ledger"
Wednesday, July 18, 1906
Page 6, Column 6

Found Body in Pasture Field.

Mrs. Theresa Drish, who lives on a farm owned by Carl Hawk about three and a half miles southeast of Pleasant Plain, found the body of an unknown man in a pasture Tuesday morning about 8 o'clock. It is probable that death occurred several days, for decomposition was already considerably advanced. Coroner A. S. Hague was summoned to hold an inquest and impaneled a jury consisting of O. W. Green, C. W. Bailey and J. H. Cummings. Their inquiry developed the fact that the body was probably that of Frank BROCKNER, who had been employed for a time on the Rock Island railway in that vicinity and had boarded at a camp about a mile from where the corpse was found. BROCKNER had been ill much of the time while in camp and some of his fellow laborers thought him suffering from excessive drink. A physician who saw him while living gave it as his opinion that he was subject to epileptic attacks. The age of the dead man was about thirty years and he was an American. No papers nor anything of value were found on his person, nor did any of the men who had worked with him know anything more than his name. The jury decided that he had died from natural causes, there being no evidence to the contrary. The body was brought to this city and interred in the City Cemetery.

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"Jefferson County Republican"
Friday, July 20, 1906
Front Page, Column 5

Found Dead.

Tuesday morning, while Mrs. Geo. Drish was salting their cattle in the Carl Hawk pasture a few miles east of Perlee, she noticed a very offensive oder. Thinking it was a dead animal she went in search of it and soon came upon the body of a man who had evidently been dead for several days. Sheriff Wright and the coroner, Dr. Hague, were notified and went out and held an inquest over the remains, with the belief that the man came to his death from natural causes, which may be true, although no one knows as the body was so badly decomposed it was hard to make the examination. Dr. C. W. Bailey thought it the body of a man who had been working on the Rock Island cut off and whom he had been called to see July 10th and who gave his name as Frank BROCKNER, and that while seemingly deranged he would speak of his mother and brother as living in Chicago, and that he had disappeared Wednesday of last week and evidently from the condition of the body he had been dead several days. How sad to die without a friend near to speak to.

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"The Fairfield Journal"
Weekly, Wednesday, August 1, 1906
Page 6, Column 3

... The decomposed body of a man, who was identified as Frank BROCKNER of Chicago, was found in the woods ten miles northeast of Fairfield. The last seen of BROCKNER was a week previous at the same place at which the body was found. So far no clue has been discovered to lead to the clearing up of the mystery surrounding the death, and but little is known of BROCKNER. Foul play is feared.

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Note: Frank was buried in the Public Section of Evergreen Cemetery, Row 3, Space 21. He was married but his wife was not named.