The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-08-14
Cause Leading to the Death Of A. Otto
Yesterday Is Explained.
No Relatives of the Unfortunate Young
Man Can Be Located.
Inquest Over the Remains Mas Held
This Afternoon.
But Few New Facts Are Developed
BY The Inquiry.
..cc;M Saturdays Daily.

Coroner Kennedy, on his return from
Lake Washington last evening, decided
to hold an inquest over the remains OF
the late A. Otto, who was accidentally
killed yesterday on the Milwaukee tract,
near Good Thunder. 1t was decided to
begin the inquest at one o'clock this af
ternoon, so that the railroad men could
depart on the afternoon train.
The following jury was summoned
Frederick L. Holtz, Tomlinson G. Peart
David E. Evans, E. Perry Rutan, P. b.
Sparrow and Geo. M. Phillips.
One of the witnesses to be examined
was John Mullarky of Freeport, ILL.,,
who was one of the party of laborers
who came from Chicago yesterday. To
The Free Press reporter he said this
morning: 'The man was called Fatty
on the train, and did not know what
his name was. He was feshy and good
natured, and played mouth organ a
good deal. / never saw him before yes
terday, but we were together good
deal during the day.
81 do not know whether the man had
been drinking before we got to Wells,
but he acted lively. He was sober until
we got to Minnesota Lake, but some of
us got to drinking there, and he and
drank together He drank five glasses of
beer down one after the other while the
train waited I bought pint bottle of
whisky and we drank it on the train. At
his first drink he took one third of it,,
and later he took more. When there
was hardly any of the liquor left he
said he wanted the rest to give to Il
friend who was sick. He went to the
other end of the car and gave the bottle
to someone.
"At Mapleton we had few more beers.
When the train stopped at Good Thunder
| got off and got couple of drinks Of
beer, and as went back to the train
Otto came from the train toward the
saloon. I gave him the price of a
drink and he went into the saloon. The
train was pulling out and had to run
to catch it. Then Otto came out of the
saloon and started to try to catch the
train, but he stumbled and fell and was
left behind. He must have been drunk
and after walking along the track fallen
asleep"
A dispatch from Chicago received at
the Milwaukee depot this morning said
that the employment agency that fur
nished the men to the Milwaukee road
was unable to locate any relatives of
Otto. G. E. Smith, who conducted the
party of laborers to Mankato, says that
when he returns to Chicago he will try
to look up the family of the dead man.
The following witnesses were examined
at the inquest: John A. Mullarkey,
VIM. Retz, c. E. Smith, j. Richard, G..
Taylor, Albert ellison, N. Killoran, j.
Lorentz and Frank Possin. The latter
is the little boy who discovered Otto
lying on the track just as the train was
coming and ran and notified his mother.
Nothing new was developed at the in
quest.
The jury returned the following YER
dict: 'That the deceased was Killed by
being run over by train No. 1913 of the
Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul railway
on August It'll, 1908, near Good Thunder,
MINI. The evidence showed that he was
asleep on the track and TINT
no blame attaches to the railroad COM
pany because of his DEATH"