Died From Exposure

Sad Death Of A Middletown Farm Laborer

Martin Green Dies in a Barn on Frank P. Magee’s Farm-He Did Chores for a Number of the Farmers in the Township

Martin Green, aged 58 years, who has done chores for the farmers in Middle-township during the past few years, was found unconscious in Frank P. Magee’s barn yesterday morning. Mr. Magee lives on the James Hubbard farm and he discovered the insensible man early in the morning. Green was lying in an empty stall. He was covered with a couple of blankets which he had taken from a wagon in the barn.

Dr. O. W. Budlong, the township physician of Middletown township, was sent for. While waiting for the doctor’s arrival Mr. Magee tried to give Green some stimulants, but the man’s jaws were set and nothing could be done to relieve him. Green died before Dr. Budlong reached the farm. The physician was of the opinion that Green’s death was due to exposure and starvation. His body was fearfully emaciated. In one of his pockets were found two five-cent pieces tied up in a rag.

Mr. Magee says that Green was slightly demented. He often visited the farmers’ granaries and ate different kinds of grain. On a recent occasion it is said that Green ate fully a quart of rye.

Green has no relatives in this part of the country so far as known. Coroner Tetley of Red Bank took charge of the body, which was buried at the county’s expense.

Source: Red Bank Register, Wednesday, Mar 19, 1902