The age-herald., 1901-09-22
Konrad ReichWein Tries to Board at Front Platform
 and Falls
CRIED LYNCH MOTORMAN'
Crowd Became Angry, and One Man Drew Plstol-Accordine to Wit nesses the Dead Man Was
 to Blame.

Konrad Relchwein, a horseshoer who ground to death last night by a trolley car. The accident happened at the cor ner of First avenue and Twentieth street about 9;45 D. m.
 A North Birmingham car was going east in charge of Motorman W. c. Kyle and Conductor J. E. Dukes. The car had just crossed Twentieth street and was about to stop on the further side when a man, crossing First avenue, was seen to grasp at the front platform, missed his hold and fell immediately in front of the car. Although the car was going very slowly he was run over and horri- ply mangled before the motorman could stop. The car, after the front trucks had passed over the body was stopped within half a car length, but the man had been killed His brains were scattered on the track, presenting a gruesome sight to the crowd which quickly collected.
 "Lynch the Motorman."
 There was great excitement for time and many cries of lynch the motor man" One man, in his excitement, drew a pistol and cried: This is the way do it," at the same time leveling 1t at the motorman. Officer Smith, who was standing by him, seized the pistol and placed the man under arrest.
 Officer Murphy, whose beat is in this part of the city investigated the acci- dent, but did not think 1t necessary to arrest the motorman and conductor, as it appeared they were in nowise to blame. Whether the man attempted to board the front platform of the car or attempted to pass in front of it could not be ascertained. The motorman was greatly upset by the accident and could not tell how it happened.
 The evidence of ye-witnesses was no more than that he was seen to grasp at the platform of the car and fall.
 Mangled Beyond Recognition.
 The body was so badly mangled about the head that at nrsI the deceased could not be recognized. The remains were
 
 of Gaudin and Loy. Part of the crowd which had collected in First avenue as soon as the accident happened followed the remains to the undertaking estab- lishment. For a while they were kept out by an officer, but as time went by and the deceased could not be identified their curiosity caused them to push their way into the building. Nothing was found in the dead mans pockets that would identify him except a card of a local union of the International Union of Journeymen Horseshoers. The writing on this was very 4aint and the card soiled, so that it was very hard to make out the name on 1t. One of the crowd held the card up to an electric light and the others crowded around, and the name of K. Reichwein was slowly deciphered letter by letter Even after the name had been spelled out many in the crowd were still in doubt.
 A Corn Cob Pipe.
 "If it's Reichwein," called ou a man, "hes got a corncob pipe in his pock- et"
 The pockets were emptied and a corn cob pipe was found. This was with one or two other circumstances finally sat isfied some who knew him that it was Reichwein, and the curiosity of the crowd having been satisfied, 1t departed.
 Reichwein was about thirty-f1ve years old and leaves a wife and two children. He has been drinking lately, and was said to have been drinking last night.
 He was employed in the D. A. Ryan & Company's horseshoeing establishment In Fourth avenue, near Nineteenth street MT. Reichwein was formerly well to do, and conducted a large horseshoeing es- tablshment in Birmingham during the boom days.