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MINER.AT PEABODY NUMBER S WAS KILLED BY ENQINE ON ’ C. A E. I. NEAR 8PILLER-TOWN..Body Wat Found About Midnight by • Southbound Train Crew—ItWas Badly Mangled.9 **»yielewY'1-yir-pfnJt11(rOCII»fo#e«•eeI1rii*John Bradley, known as “Half a' 4 , B 9 . a r •Dollar0 was killed some time last ev-enlng by a Chicago and Eastern Illinois train according to the best evidence obtainable this morning.Brad-Idy’s body was found about midnight by a southbound train crew, but the body was cold and thought to have beed Wiled previous to their trip over that section, of track.Bradley after work yesterday is re-^ortejl to have gone to a bootlegging place near Spillertown and was seen there by James Hale and George Davis. These same men later saw Brad-♦ ■ley sitting on the railroad track, near the place the body was found. Davis called to Bradley and told him that he ought to move as be might be killed. hut Bradley did not answer.The body was discovered by . the crew in charge of train number number 65. H. D. Biglow was the engineer Harry Laughlin. fireman; E. D. Nes-selrod, and D. T. Henderson, brake* man. Biglow saw something on the track as his train aproached but couldn't teli^ what it was until he wapj lt;almost touching the body. He the stopped the train, bht the engine and 11 five cars had passed over the body. They went back to the body and re* ported that it was cold when they found it The body was brought .back 11 to Marion. It is thought that a northbound train probably killed him. as there had been four north bound trains and one south bound from the time Bradley was last seen until when he was found dead. .Bradley ilveB on North Otis streetand Is the son of Sam Bradley of this - • §city. He was identified by-some of the men at Splllertown who saw the body He leaves a wife and three step-chll-dren. but had no children of his own. He was born January 11. 1871. and was forty-five years and two weeks old.The coroner's jury reconvened this morning after a hasty meeting last night and examined two more witnesses, but then t adjourned until evening when Coroner Strike was to have* • s • *some more witnesses to appear before the jury. It was suggested to the jury that Bradley might have had a fight and been laid on the track. Tits body being cold .when discovered lent color to this theory, altho it is no thought• i •to be the case. The coroner's jury is* . »composed'Of Fred McIntosh, foreman; Bert Scobey, Herman Hill, H. H. TTn-derWood, Fred Hawkins, and L. A. Sanders. ‘The funeral will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock from the hdme on North Otis street. Rev. J. I, Gunn,pastor of the Christian church, will• •officiate.. - . • *. r • -i#c• *1tllthSttvPt:pttis£ofl
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Marion Semi Weekly Leader
Marion, Illinois, US
Fri, Jan 28, 1916
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