Unknown, ManFoundOnRRTrack



DIED: 11/16/1886


PLOT INFO: OBITUARYS:

BURIED IN UNION CEMETERY WITH THE SAME LAST NAME:

OBITUARY ---------------

The San Mateo County Times and Gazette

11/20/1886

At about 5:15 A.M. last Wednesday as Jeremiah Murphy, a section hand, was returning from the house of a friend where he had been all night, he found a man's or boy's hat beside the railway track. Thinking that the hat belonged to one of his sons, he took it into the house. Some fifteen or twenty minutes later, Patrick Cullen called and said that the dead body of a young man had been found some ten or twelve feet north of the Cedar street crossing in town. The attention of Mr. Cullen had been called to the body about 5:30 A. M,., by the furious barking of a dog, evidently barking at some object on or beside the track, when Mr. Cullen and one of his sons reached the spot, the body was still warm and limp, though quite dead, the head having been completely severed from the body. The theory is, from the evidence deduced at the inquest at which Justice Tallman acted as coroner and Messr. R. C. Welch , Jamees Horn, H. F. Thruston, J. V. Swift, S. C. Iler, Edward Fisher, and D. D. Parsons acted as jurors, that the victim, a young man and unkonwn, Portuguese, Italian, Mexican or other foreigner, was killed probably by the 5 A. M. north bound milk train on the under pinning of which he was probably stealing a ride when he fell and was dragged to death. Mr. Crowe kept the body Thursday and Friday but it was ot identified, although a Mr. Layman of San Jose called to see if it might be the body of a missing brother.

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