Evening journal., 1896-10-07
bio THEY KILL TRAMPS7
he Serious Accusations Made
Against Trainmen.
MANY "FRBIGHT JUMPERS" SLAIN.


uansied Bodies Picked Up Along the
Line Of the Consolidated Road-An Al
4 legged Plot to Murder the Migrants who
stole Rides on Freight Trains.
4 NEW HAVEN, Oct. Dead bodies have
\ been picked up with alarming frequency
4 along the tracks of the Consolidated rail
Il road during the past four months This
troGd Is a branch Of the New York, New
kHaven and Hartford railroad, connecting
New London with this city.
So many men have been found mutilated
on this short run that it has become
known as Dead Mans run" The po-
lice are now satisfied that murder has been
done in many of these cases, and they
blame the employees on the freight trains.
According to the police, the trainmen have
\ deliberately entered into plot to murder
tramps who were found stealing rides on
n their trains.
y Coroner ELI Mix was informed of this
n ghastly discovery last night. His records
& of tho many deaths on the railroad were
q locked up IN his safe. His clerk could not
81 be found. Here is the best list that can
81 be now made up:
4 Eugene Williams of Madison; body
n found at Fairhaven horribly mangled.
g John Chatfed Of New Haven; found
q cut to pieces at Milford.
Unidentified man, we'll dressed; found
# by the tracks at Lake Saltonstall.
81 Unidentified man; found by the tracks
VI lat Stratford.
Unidentified man; found near New Lon
a don.
Unidentified man found at Fairhaven.
s This is q very incomplete list. Hardly
& IA week has passed during the summer
81 that body has not been found somewhere
s lon the line, lying on the tracks, mangled
N lby the hundreds Of car wheels that have
passed over it Many of them have been
& clad in fairly good clothing showing that
the men were probably Of decent assooia-
tions, but temporarily in hard luck
# Supposed to have fallen from pass
# ing train" or "Killed by the cars'' has
been the verdict duly rendered in every
one OF these cases by the coroner's jury.
One Lucky Failure.
These verdicts might have gone on for
years If It bad not been that one Of the
trainhands failed in his CHASTITY job. The
victim lived and sought out the police
here. Thoy Investigated, and in the course
Of their search stumbled all over the truth.
p "A humane brakeman, who could not see
uIOtL uOuts Is thlu 10 nave lOlu All. muO
he is or on what train he runs tho police
absolutely decline TO tell. Their reason Is
simple one. IL would mean death for
that man on the cars some day.
e 1t was Policeman Michael Ahearn who
made the discovery. This is the story he
told to press reporter: "On the night Of
Sept. 26 three tramps boarded train No.
100 at Boston. One was Michael Maho-
ney, plumber out of work. His story
y was that he wanted to get to New York
and find job. The other two men agreed
TO go with him. They were put off twice
before they got to New London, but man
hged to get back on the cars each time
E Finally, at Mantle, they angered Brake
& man Edward J. Dean, who promptly went
s 81 DacE to his caboose, and, loading a revolv-
er went out again. The train was stopped
and the men put of.
"Mahoney started to walk away, when
suddenly there was shot, and he looked
around. Dean had his revolver leveled at
him and was blazing away. Mahoney
started TO run. A shot brought him down.
Dean kept firing till no had shot five
times Two missed, one tore through the
mans coat and grazed his neck, and one
took effect In the right leg and one in the
right arm
"Mahoney tainted there by the tracksi
and the trainmen, who ran out at the
sound Of the shooting did not dare leave
him there so he was picked up and placed
aboard the train, bleeding and exhausted.
The trainhnnds were IN a terrible stew.
Finally they decided to put him off at Ce-
dar Hill, just outside OF New Haven,
wounded and all as he was.
"Mahoney made his way to this city,
and l was put on the case.
"All that Mahonoy knew was that he
had been put off by tall man with a
sandy mustache, who shot at him five
times after he had left the train"
The railroad people strenuously deny
the rumors and assert that the trainmen
hre in no way responsible for the tragedies.