Daily Gazette & Comet [Baton Rouge, LA], November 17, 1860
A white man was found floating in the river opposite the residence of Sidney A. Robertson, in West Baton Rouge, on the 14th inst. The man appeared to be a laboring man, perhaps a deck-hand on a steamboat; the body gave evidence of murderous treatment, having several cuts on the head and a knife wound in the side. No papers or money found on his person. On the right arm in India ink, under two clasped hands, were the initials H. F., with a flower on each side, such as are usually made by sailors.