The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-11
Was Young Man Murdered and Placed on the
 Gar Track?
THIS THEORY HELD BY
 STREET RAILWAY OFFICIALS
Head Crushed Beyond Recognition, Young Man Identified Only By Club Foot-Statements of
 Those Connected.

Dallas Campbell, aged 22 years, was run over by Powderly car about 4:45 o'clock yesterday morning within few yards of the Elyton station.
 The street railway officials are of the opinion that Campbell had first been mur- dered and placed upon the track.
 Motorman Floyd Madden was in charge of the car and stated that Campbell was lying across the track with his head on one rail and his leg stretched across the other. turned partially on his side and his overcoat over his face He was right at the bottom of the grade running down from Eubank station to Elyton station. The nature of the grade is such that the searchlight on the front of the car did not play distinctly upon this spot and Campbells form was not discernible until the car was close on it. Madden threw on his reverse lever but the car continued for some distance before it could be stopped.
 Body Horribly Mutilated.
 The body was dragged about 25 feet and cut to pieces. The head was mashed almost to a pulp. The only means of Identification was that Campbell had club foot.
 Conductor Hodge was in charge of the car, which was the third one to leave Birmingham yesterday morning. Pow derly and South Bessemer car having preceded it a few moments.
 One theory of Campbelrs being stretched out on the track is that he had left town on the Bessemer car, which makes no local stops between Elizabeth station and Birmingham. Campbel's sta tion is Elyton and it was thought that he had perhaps boarded the Bessemer car and jumped from it as it reached Elyton, and had landed with great force on the track and rendered unconscious. General Superintendent George Harris of the Birmingham Railway, Light and Power company stated last night, how ever, that upon Investigation 1t had been discovered that Campbell had not been a passenger on either the Bessemer or first Powder1y car.
 was ne Muroereu1
 The manner in which Campbell was ly- ing on the track gives credence to the murder theory, the body being stretched out straight with the head on one rail and feet just beyond the other. There was also only small amount of blood on the ground, which would lead to the belief that death had ensued before the &1.. head had rested there was a thin pool of blood about the size of mans hand. A smaller spot was on the other rail, where the legs had rested, while there were four or five small spots on the ground where the body had been dragged under the car. It is also possible, however, that the blood was ground up in the body
 Embalmer Hicks of Shaw & Son, who reached the scene a few moments after the accident occurred, stated that life had not been extinct for over an hour at the greatest.
 Campbell was a quiet young fellow of good character. He worked for Fuqua Bros, at their dairy in Elyton, having been with them for the past seven years. He came to town Saturday night spent a while with some friends and left them about o'clock, stating that he was go- ing to take in the moving picture the atres His movements after tl,s are not known.
 campbel's Saturday Movements.
 He had only about a dollar with him. when he came up town, while the under | taker 1id not discover any money at all | upon him yesterday morning.
 The remains were so mangled that it | was impossible to tell whether or not | he had sustained any wounds prior to | being run over.
 Campbells home was at Newmarket. | Ala, and the remains will be sent there | this morning at o'clock for interment, they being held at Shaw &s Sons es- tablishment in the meantime. Motorman Madden is one of the most | trusted motormen in the street car serv- ice, having been employed for six years. | This was his first accident. Both he | and Conductor Hodge were somewhat un- nerved by the affair and turned their car over to another crew for the rest | of the day. Il