The Big Stone post. (Big Stone Gap, Va.) 1890-1892, 1891-10-16
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~ he section liandsson tie Louisville
y Nashville we're going to work YESTERDAY
morning they found lying alongside the
track near, the depot. the body Of nan.
who had been terribly maaglcd. iii fact
the body was SO terribly cut to pieces as
to be almost beyond recognition as it lay
stfewn along the track for 900 yards. The
sappos:tion was. that the body was run
over by q freight train going east ut $40
O'Clock, n. IN, The dead man turned out
to he the Is year old son of Wesley Tay-
Tor, who lives in sight of the place where
the dead boy was found. His name was
John Taylor, aged Is years, and he worked
az Il section hand on the e. & n. The
last seen Of him alive was about 1880 p.
No., in company with John Plaster. John
Edene, who lives near the home OF Tay-
Tor, within the town limits. said that the
hoy left his house that night about 1880
o'clock p. IN.
Justice Ferguson was notified Only yes
terday morning Of The finding of the
body, and coroncr's Jury was at once
summoned to view the rcmains
The jury consisted Of Horace I. Fox, G.
NJ. Harris, c. w. Evans, W. N. Young, ".
Z. Hodgens and j. N. Taylor.
Wesley TAYLOR was the first witness
called II identified the body as that CT
his son who left home about dark that
nightin company with John Plaster, who
lives with Mr. Eden, about lC0 yards dis
tant.
BE. Wilson, the engineer on the train
that passed about 3:25 a. M lie saw 10
man on the track as he passed, but saw
blood On the wheels Of his engine tins
morning. lie would have seen any man
who standing on the track, but could not
have web seen one who was lying on the
track. Was running at eight or ten miles
an hour where The body was found.
Miller, the fireman on the engine was
leaning out Of his engine, but saw 10 one
on the track. Saw the lloot on The riSNf
hand drivers Of the engine; no blood on
the pilot. :,
Dir. J p. Moore, the station agent said
that he left The depot about O'Clock ana
retired about o'clock; he lives near the
depot, and sometime after retiring ne was
aroused by loud voices ard cnrsing at the
Crate and Mantel Factory; he raised the
window and called out to the persons TO
bchaye themselves; he recognized that
one of the persons was John Plaster; he
was accompanied bv another whom he did
not recognize; one CT the parties seemed
TO be quite drunk and was being sup
ported; he could not say which was the
the drunken party,
! NJ G. Kaylor, track-walker came out
from the depot about G:30 in the morning
on hand car; scon after leaving the de-
| pot he saw laying on the side of the track
| what lie thought was = liver; further on
| there were oti.erindcnions of something
having been killed, and he concluded that
the train had killed hog, bnt a few feet
further Oil he run up on the dead body OF
q man.
Stout, one of the section hands, made
about the same statement. He stated
that he recognized the body Us that of
John Taylor chiefly by the clothes he
found
John Plaster, the man last seen with
| the deceased was the next witness. he
stated that he went up in town from lay
lor's home that night about dark; went tc
the saloon, got a pint of whiskey; we
drank that up and went back and got an
| other: came across the East Fifth street
! bridge; he did mt remember anything that
happened after this until he got to the
residence of Il Mr.. Bishop some distance
below where the killing occurred on the
L. & N. lie got tc Bishops about day
4 break; he remembered nothing of The
vest he picked up at Crate and Mantcl
Factory The night before; he said that he
had been drunk with Taylor several fines
before
Doc Harson. who works at the Crate
and Mantel Factory stated that about
II: 80 he was in the factory whcn Plaster
and TAYLOR came and shook tie factory
door and raised disturbance, when Mr..
Moore raised his window and Quoted
them; they then went off down the track;
f! it seemed to him that Plaster was the
drnnkest Of the two; il was abOnt fifteen
minutes after they left that a train from
| Norton went West,
Drs. Howard and kunkel were sworn,
and testified that they could find no cvi-
dence of violence on the body, of any
other violence than the mangling Of the
train but that if there had been any foul
play that they could scarcely discover it
| in The condition Of the body.