From the October 2, 1888 Brooklyn Daily Eagle:

“Norfolk, Va.–A boy, while passing through the Hollies, two miles from Virginia Beach, Saturday night, discovered the skeleton of a man. From the scattered clothing, papers and other articles found around it, it was identified as the remains of Alonzo Lewis, the missing salesman of W. & B. Douglass, pump manufacturers, of New York City. The buzzards had eaten every particle of flesh off, leaving only the bleached bones. The presumption is that he was not murdered, but committed suicide.”