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deadBODY’S CONDITIONHad DeIparted Before Train Hit it gut No Evidence Could be SecuredCoroner Streeper held an inquestW'Hloesda.v nUhi as to the cause orbe death of Jotm Redmond, adoptedbrother of ^ttle (,u,emu» ^Myrtle House, and a verdict of •tridental d^ath fixing no respon-Ability K|v**n by th® Jury- 11would have required very little evidence however, to conflrtm thesuspicions that Redmond was neverfilled by a train, but that Ids body 1,tt'ts laid on the track to disguise a 1murder Engineer Webb testified (Jwheii he saw the body It appeared to l*e propped up In the track between trails Miss bottle Coleman tm-Hfled that the day following the filing of her adopted brother, she ^vtlted the scene and searched for ] { evidences of the tragedy. She found j ypl^R of Redmond's body and head,tnd garments strewn along the track, tmt not a drop of blood any placeexcept a very little bit on the rail where Redmond's, head was cut off.She gathered up the fragments of his head !** a handkerchief and laidwitnessesIvI’1vhfhaathem iu the casket. Otheieorroborated her statement there wasbo blood at the place where Redmond vis killed Walter Ferris, the only witness who could be found, deniedhiving sect) the killing, claimed that *h.. had taken Redmond off the track t! several times duringan afternoon's d spree and when the train struck si him was separated hy a box car aifrom Redmond end the third man. rlt;who The third man has Tinot been found und Ferris denied.even when threatened with jail, that rlt;ho knew who he was. ' ftMiss Coleman told a story at the lt;!'jPQuest that indicated that her bro-1 01th*.r \v - held under some kind ofcontrol by a gang of idlers withvbom he a»*oduted. * They could make him do anything they chose, and he was picked for all the dangerous Jobr Incident to getting beer to keep the gang from going thirsty. ]He was never allowed tQ keep a good suit of clothes. His half sister kept him to help around her hotel, andwhenever she bought Redmond a suit of clothes the gang would take It from him or induce him to pawnk himself for drink. They even in-dured him to take a penitentiaryMpPinduced Redmond to secure $f worth of drinks on another man, not in the gang, who had innocently enough and charitably contributed to the first bucket of beer out of pity forV(it ill I % , u «iy ••• « wwr^Vi ’ ^ -------lid not commit It, but he took the the thirsty gang. No matter how leatenee rather than tell who did do hard he tried, Miss t’oleman said. It, a* the fellow belonged to the gang. Redmond could not get away from Last summer the gang got Redmond the influence of the gaug and he was to get a large amount of hams and kept with a black eye all the time, )ther meats on her name during one | showing how demands for his obedience to orders of the gang were be-Old the meat for drink The gang ing enforced a , , a
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Alton Evening Telegraph
Alton, Illinois, US
Fri, Nov 26, 1909
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