100 years ago in Spokane: Police search for clues to identify man found dead

A few clues emerged in the mystery of the dead man underneath the Monroe Street Bridge. Two men identified him as the man who had ridden with them on the auto stage to Spokane several days before.

He had embarked on the stage at Rocklyn, 8 miles west of Davenport.

Also, police found a letter lying 25 feet from the body on the riverbank. It was written by a Miss Marion Le Guen, of Chelan, and addressed to a Frank Arthur Anderson, of Spokane. However, there was no way of knowing if the letter was connected with the body.

The most important questions remained unresolved: Who was he, and had he been murdered? Police were in contact with a Yakima haberdasher who made the hat that the man was wearing.

Also from the missing persons beat: Seattle authorities had been convinced that Richard Logsdon of that city had been murdered.

He had been missing for weeks after he embarked on a trip to Hood Canal and then disappeared. He had been carrying $1,000 in cash for the trip, and his family and police came to the sad conclusion that he had been murdered for his money.

Then he showed up at his Seattle home and asked his astonished wife why she had not answered his letters (she apparently never received them).

Logsdon said that he had decided to go to Spokane instead of Hood Canal. Then he went on a sightseeing tour through Idaho, Montana and South Dakota, and back to Spokane, before heading home to his startled family.