Albuquerque citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1907-1909, 1908-12-21
WAS INJURED IN
PECULIAR MANNER
Stepping Aside to Avoid PedeStri.
ans He Struck Against a
Board. Dying After Sew.
erdl Hours of Severe
Pain.

Ed McNeese, the man injured on
the Coal avenue viaduct at 5 O'Clock
yesterday afternoon in a manner yet
undetermined by coroner's jury,
died at st. Joseph's sanitarium at Z
o'clock this morning, after night of
terrible suffering. So violent did ne
become that it required four men to
hold him in his bed for several hours
previous to o'clock this morning.
After that hour he became quieter
until his death at Z o'clock.
But two slight blue and red spots
on the right side of the body one
three and a half feet from the bot
tom of the foot and the other five in
ches higher, are the only evidences
of the accident and how these were
made is a mystery.
According to McNeese's own story
told few minutes after the accident,
as he related 1t to William Graham.
of the Graham Dye Works, 500 So.
Second street, he was walking down
the west approach of the yiaduct and
ran into a piece of board protruding
from the railing. He said that he
came in contact with the board while
avoiding persons he met in the mar
row passageway. The blow knocked
him down with such force that. he
struck his head on the floor of the
viaduct with great violence. He wae
helped off the viaduct to the porch at
507 South Second street by a young
man and an old man, and remained
there while the young man telephon-
ed for an ambulance.
Graham says that he did not know
the two men who were with McNeese.
He believes they were both strangers
to McNeese, who happened on the
viaduct at the time of the accident.
While waiting for the ambulance Nc
Neese uncovered his side and showed
Graham the bruised places. The latter
said this morning that there was no
outward evidence of serious injury,
though the man complained of pains
and said he feared that he had brok-
en- something.
On arriving at the hospital, Nc
Neese was placed in the general ward
but it soon became evident that he
was seriously injured He was then
moved to a private room on the first
floor. His pain increased and he be-
came violent. During one of his
quiet moments he said that he mad a
brother living at Lowell, Mass. He
said that he was a Catholic and ask
ed to see a priest. At intervals he
would say something about his valu-
able papers" He wrote two address
es after reaching the hospital but
they are unintelligible. He talked very
much at random and in an incoherent
ma
ing that they believed MS head was
hurt as well as his side. He believed
that he could hear it raining outside
and said so repeatedly.
He Was Without Money.
McNeese took a room at Sturges'
European hotel Saturday evening,
registering from San Francisco. He
was well dressed and carried a suit
case. Sunday morning he told the
clerk that he would leave that night
for the south, paid for his room and
went out. He returned about o'clock
In the evening and got his coat and
said that he was going out for a
walk He left his suitcase at the no.
tel This was opened this morn ng
and found to contain only a few
clothes, including two new night
gowns.
The clothing he wore had the ap-
pearance of being new, and fashion,
ably cut. He was fully six feet tall,
had dark hair and gray eyes. He was
20 years old and told the nurses at
the hospital that ne was born in Aus
tralia. Although he said Doth at the
hospital and at the hotel that he was
a bartender, the appearance of his
hands indicates that he had done
harder work. the presence of tattoo
marks on his breast and on his arms
Indicates that he may have been q
sailor at one time.
On the breast is tattooed in blue
the thirteenth verse of the thirteenth
chapter of Hebrews. On the right
arm in red and blue Is 1904" and an
unfurled United States flag. On the
left arm was the emblem OF the Ma
sonic order, indicating that possibly
ne was a Mason. He had but S5
cents in his pocket, and no valuables
except a gold watch and chain.
r Coroner Investigates.
Coroner W. w. Mcclellan this
marnlng empaneled a coroner's jury
as follows: Ben Bottle, James Nc
Corriston, r. L Wooton, Samuel
Gordon. John Biddleeomb and Dick