Aged Man Dead After Foodless 15-Day Period

Harry Kingam, 85, died at 11 yesterday morning at the Nez Perce county hospital where he had been a patient since Oct. 31. Dead was attributed to exposure, under-nourishment and complications.

On Oct. 31, Raleigh Albright, rancher between Arrow and Juliaetta, notified the sheriff's office that a man was lying in a clump of trees near the Albright place and Deputies Ray Ingram and Archie Rowland investigated. They found Kingam lying out in the rain with stump fire near his resting place. Questioned by the officers, Kingam said he had been without food for 15 days. He was in a filthy condition, officials said.

Taken to the county hospital, he was questioned by the officers. He talked at random, first giving his name as Ed Cureans and as Dan Kearns. He said he had worked at railroading at Missoula; drove tie rafts on the Green river in Wyoming, spent 10 years logging at LaGrande, Ore., and logged in the Willamette valley. He indicated he came to Idaho many years ago and worked in the timber belt of Clearwater county. An attempt was made by Sheriff Hays to take fingerprints at the time Kingam was brought to Lewiston, but this was impossible, the sheriff said, because of skin peeling from fingertips. He leaves no known relatives.

The body is at the Vassar-Rawls chapel. No funeral arrangements have been made.