Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1897-12-31

MA" NEWELL KILLED.
Harvard's Most Famous Football
Player Crushed 10y Engine.

Player Crushed 10y Engine.
SPRINGFIELD. Mas. Dee. Marshall
Newell, tine famous Harvard football player
in years gone by. aud graduate pf the class
Of "a. has just been killed ia the West
Springfield yard. near the bridge across
the Connrcticut He was A-,is.un,
division superintendent Of the BI,-
ton Albany road, position
which he had held for wear. lie h,ti u--n
killed by the ''Scuot' train from Nrstlield.
It was shown, several Of his toes being found
on the tracks OF the train. Just how be met
his death il not known. Ills body was folud
on the north track of the railroad. ABOUT 50
feet west OF the switching tower.
lie was killed about $50 p. m. The
left leg was crushed below the knee and the
toes of the right foot We're ground 10 pulp,
The face was disiigured beyond recognition.
but the skull was not crushed. The cloth
ing was torn to shreds The shoes and
stockings were literally ground from the ieet.
Mr. Newell father. samuel Newell was a
New York lawyer. Dut about II years ago
moved from his home in Clifton. y.
j., to Great Darlington, where he bought
a farm about t'gO miles outside Of the village.
Mr. Newell. senior, died II years ago.
Marshal Newell was born in Clifton. y. j..
u years ago. lie worked on his fathers
farm during his college vacations. lie was
called the finest tackle the gridiron has ever
seen and also roWed in the winning varsity
crew. Perhaps no young man has gone out
from the Cambridge university in the
last ten years more widely known than
Marshall Newell. over there where he
spent the four years that brought him into
such prominence ne was almost idOlized.
and from the dav when he was graduated a.,
Harvard in 1894. he made friends wherever
hi, lot threw him. All who knew him. even
avery little, admired and respected him.
Those whose privilege it was to know him
closely, loved him. There was no sham
about MA" Newell. He was square, fear
less and honest every day il tho year. ana
Us YOU found him today. You were sure to
find him tomorrow, and the next day, and
the next day and 80 on every dav
His character corresponded exactly
with his magnificent physique and was
shown always in his football playing. Had
there been the slightest grain Of meanness
in his makeup il would have crept out al
some time in his football career, where his
great ability and pheuomcnalstren would
have aided any disposition leaning towards
uniarness. But never was there a suspicion
OF his football playing. which was model
that has ever sine" been held up 10 his sue
cessOrs at Cambridge. When in the fall Of
1890, Captain CumnUrks victorious football
eleven cane back from Springfield after
defeating Yale enough praise was showered
upon Ma Newell to have turned the head
of most boys. but he showed even then the
good. solid common sense which was ever
one OF his strong characteristics. HOnorS
rested lightly on his broad shoulders which
carried many throughout his college course
even to his class day, when he was one of
the three marshai> chosen 10y his classmates
as the three most popular men among them.
When Mr.. Newell first graduated he went to
work tTpu l. Dplapi IA the Ilffpr'- IA.