Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-08-15
ONLY ONE OF A
HUNDRED THOUSAND
Herman T. Huih, a Railroad Grader
Falls to His Death from Thorn
apple Bridge.-Rooze

American nation Is giving up lts
manhood to the Unsuitable cravings
of the, liquor traffic
Herman II. Huth, an intelligent
Young German, with a wife and two
children living at Norfolk. Ohio, fell
from q hand-car while crossing the
new Wisconsin Central bridge over
the Thornapple river six miles north
west OF this city, about : clock
Monday morning. and was instant
ly killed. His twOcOmpanions, Aug
ust Bauer, another German laborer,
and Hugh Trumbley, the ''f1unky
in the Kitchen at Camp ], were ar
rested the next morning and held to
the cOroner's inquest, which took
place in the court house Tuesday
evening.
The inquest was presided over by
Justice X. s. Reeves, and the jury
consisted OF Jac. Speich, \. Birdsell,
H. A. Kruger, H. E. Beaunette, ID.
A. Sabin and David lngle.
District Attorney g. H. Williams
of Bruce conducted the examination
of witnesses. Leo Il. Eaton OF Mil
waukee, special attorney for the
Wisconsin Central, was present.
The first W witnesses examined were
fellow labOrers of the deceased, who
told of Bauer's excited narrative
Monday morning, and how they
went with him and found the body
under the bridge, and the bloody
handle-bar a short distance away.
DR.. w. l.. Stephenson, who accom-
panied the coroner's jury Monday to
inspect the body, testified that there
were cuts above the right eye and on
the bridge of the nose, and that the
skull was fractured. separating the
occipital and parietal bones, which
fracture had been the cause OF death.
The distance from the bridge to the
ground was 81 feet aud q large stone
living nearby had probably been
struck in the fall.
A. l.. Rice, conductor of the work
train, testified that his train left the
city at 6:35 Monday morning and
the crew saw the body lying below
the bridge.
Mr.. Watson, a foreman at the
camp, testified to finding his hand
car, No 1lS, minus handle, and one
end OF the platform spattered with
blood.
J. II. Jordan. night Waterman in
the Wisconsin Central yards, testi-
fed 10 seeing the trio, "happy
drunk" leave town on the hand-car
between and O'Clock and that
they returned to the north end OF
the yard about midnight.
All these preliminary statements
gave rise to the suspicion that
there might have been foul play; but
t .cre was no evidence to show that
there had been any trouble, ana
there was no attempt to cover up
anything on the part OF either OF the
men held.
August Bauer, when put on the
stand was nOticeably nervous and
he had the sympathy OF the large
crowd present. lie had been but
four months in America, could un-
derstand English fairly well, bui
could not speak it. j. Nj. Conratf
was sworn as interpreter. Bauer
told a straight story of how the
trio had left camp on the hand-cal
about ) o'clock Sunday afternoon
coming to Ladysmith, where they
visited several saloons, and q res
taurant. 1.-The flunky" paying the
bills, as The Others had no money
They started for camp between
and 8 O'Clock, taking two quarts o
whiskey with them, one OF Whlcl
they drank along the road. They
stopped at intervals and were sc
drunk that at one time the car was
started i'm the wrong direction anC
they came back to town. At some
=
point along the route Huth fell oil
he ear backW ards and came nea
being run over. The others helped
him back upon the car and did no
know that he was hurt, as it wa
quite dark. 1t is probable that th
car was not stopped until it had in
fiicted the cuts upon his face, which
accounted for the blood upon tn
handle and platform of the car
They stopped the ear on the Thorn
apple bridge and were just startin!
up again when Huth, who was a
lone on the front end, fell sideways
taking the handle with him. Baue
went down to find him and took hir
by the hand and raised his head, cal
ing him by name, but received n
answer. lie called 1.-The flunky" t
come and help him carry the bod
up to the car, but the "flunky" pro
badly already had all the load b
could carry. They went on to camI
where Bauer tried to arouse his ter
mates but, seeing that he was drum
they paid no attention to him.
Hugh Trumbly, "the flunky' cap
here from Stock ton, III. His stor
corroborated that of the German
although they had been separate
since being arrested, except as t
their relative positions on the ca
which he probably was too drunk