John Pugh's Body Found in Creek

John Pugh's Body Found in Creek Camden Man Tied a Paving Stone to His Neck and Leaped Into the Stream Special to The Inquirer. GLOUCESTER CITY, N.J., Oct. 19.—The mysterious disappearance of John Pugh, aged 65 years, from his home at 439 Viola street, early yesterday morning was solved this afternoon, when Joseph Lamory and William Gordon, two boatmen, found his body in Newton Creek near the bridge which spans that stream between Camden and Gloucester City. It was believed by the friends of Mr. Pugh that he had ended his life, as he had been ailing for some time past, so Gordon and Lamory started early this morning to grapple for the body. After grappling for several hours between South Camden and Gloucester, they rowed to the mouth of the creek, where they found the corpse an hour later. Around the neck was a clothes line with a paving block fastened to it. There is no doubt that Pugh tied the rope and stone to his neck in order to make sure of ending his life. It is the general opinion that Pugh jumped from the bridge near where he was found after tying the rope about his neck. The body was identified by Benjamin E. Mellor, his son-in-law. Coroner Litchfield was notified, and, after viewing the body, issued a certificate of suicide while temporarily deranged. The body was removed to Mr. Pugh's late home, in Camden.