Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-11
FOUL PLAY HINTED AT.
There Is o Possibility That Bernard
Kane Was Murdered.
A PEDDLER'S SUSPICIOUS DEATH.
Michael Stapleton's Curious Escape From
Ilectrocution.
THE MANY OTHER ACCIDENTS OF A DAY

There is some question as to how Bernard
Kane met his death. There is an equal
chance that it was murder or accident
Kane was found at 10:45 o'clock Wednes-
day night on the tracks of the Allegheny
Valley Railroad near Forty-eighth street.
His head was nearly severed from his body
and crushed horribly. The remains were
picked up by the crew of one of the engines
of the Lucy Furnace Company. The body
was cold, and it was evident that life had
been extinct for quite while.
Kane has followed railroading for the
past 16 years For a great part of the time
he was employed on the Allegheny Valley
road, and it was on those tracks that he lost
On arm some time ago. He has been of late
running an engine at the Isabella furnaces
in Sharpsburg. He was considered very
good and careful railroad man. For this
reason and the fact that he has suffered one
injury by railroad, it is thought he would
not be found mapping on the tracks.
Foul Play limited At.
Kane was married, and lived on Plum
alley, between Forty-seventh and Forty
eighth streets 1t was his wife who Thomas
Keegan assaulted several days ago. He
used Mrs Kane up pretty badly, and is
now in Jail. Kane has worried over this
affair continually, and from what
he has said to his friends it
was his intention to get even
with Keegan's friends. At the Kane home
last night the murder theory was held to by
a number of relatives and close friends of
the ramily. One gentleman thinks that he
was either drugged or received a blow on
the head and then placed on the tracks. The
crushed condition of the head makes it i'm
possible to ascertain whether there is any
thing in this last theory. The family claims
to have positive information that the dead
man was not under the influence of liquor
The Last Hour Unaccounted For.
Up until 10 o'clock Wednesday night
Kane is accounted for, but from then until
his body was picked up, no one has been
found who saw him. A few moments be-
fore 10 o'clock Kane left Jackson's saloon
at Fiftieth and Hatfield streets. Mr. Jack
son said last night that Kane had been in
his place for quite a time but had drunk
only three glasses of beer during his stay.
From information extended by his friends,
this amount of drink would have no effect
on him.
At one time Kane was employed at the
Lucy furnaces For this reason the opinion
is advanced that the man was going to see
some of his old friends. who were working
there. This is not very probable as the
furnaces are at the foot OF Fiftieth street,
the same thoroughfare Jackson's saloon is
on, and Kane's body was found nearly at
Forty-seventh street, even below his own
home.
The Coroner commenced his investiga-
tion last night Mr.. Brush, who is work.
ing the case, leans toward the accidental
theory. He, however, comedies that there
are some peculiar circumstances connected
with the death. The inquest is set for
Saturday. and in the meantime an effort
will be made to follow Kane from the time
he left the saloon up to the discovery of his
body.
Kane was "a years of age, and was the
father of six children. His remains were
taken to the home of his father at Sandy
Creek.