Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-07-25
AovER41sKasET MERTON.
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
CoRoHER's INQUEST.

An inquest was held last evening by Cor
oner Clark on the body of the woman who
was killed by the Folsom train on the morn
ing of the 23d.
Thos. Fitzgerald, the first witness, said he
had viewed the remains in the Morgue, and
recognized them 70 be that of a woman he
had seen on the railroad track near the
Homestead on the morning of the 23d. BE
told her to look out for the train. She con-
tinued walking on the track. When the
whistle blew he looked back, and saw her on
the track where it crosses the culvert on
Thirty-frst street. She az that time acted as
though she was excited and bewildered. She
stepped from the center of the track to one
side, but was still on the end Of tie over
the eulvert when the engine struck and
knocked her into the canal. He ran to the
canal as soon as possible, and by the aid Of
others took her from the canal dead. There
was some water in the ditch, and her head
was partially submerged.
J. w. Hanferd said that he was the en-
gineer on the locomotive. He saw her on the
track when q half mile away. Something
struck him that she did not see or hear the
approaching train. He gave the alarm whis-
tie. She looked up and moved to one side of
the track, and seemed to waver, and then
took the center of the track again. She then
walked on 90 the bridge over the canal. The
engine was then reversed and the whistle con-
tinuously blown. She was on the west end of
tbs bridge, and in the act of stepping of,
when the bumper beam of the engine struck
her on the shoulder and threw her into the
canal. The train was moving very slowly !;
was stopped in q short distance and the
woman picked up. She seemed TO be bewil-
dered, and had she been young person could
have easily got out of the way. The engine
was reversed when she was seen to stop on
the bridge.
George Hanford, fireman, corroborated the
testimony of the engineer.
P. Howard said that be had been &C.
quainted with the deceased for eighteen
years /; that her name was Mrs. Bridget
Leonard, 8 native of ireland, and about 60
years of age. He saw her walking toward
Sacramento on the track the morning she
was killed. He saw her some time before
the train was near her, and che had plenty of
time to get off the track. The alarm signals
were given when the train was long dis
tanGe off.
Henry johnson, the conductor of the
train, said he recognized the remains in
the Morgue ss the woman killed nesr
the Homestead on the morning of the 3d.
of about three miles an hour. Heard the
alarm whistle, but could not see the woman
on She track. The engine was reversed and
the brakeman at his post. The alarm whistle
and the whistle for the brakes were both
sounded, and lie was satisfied that everything
had been done that could be done to prevent
the accident.
The verdict rendered was as follows :.
1--WE, the Gproner's jury, being duly sum-
moned and sworn by the Coroner to inquire
into the death of the woman killed at the
Homestead station, do fad that her name
was Bridget LsonArd, native of Ireland,
aged about 65 years, and do find that her
death was accidental, by being run over by
the Folsom train Of July 23d, and no blame
is or can be attached to the conductor, the
engineer or any one else connected With the
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