The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-09-23
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FOUND BESIDE TRACKS
Edward Ewing Discovered Lying on M. &
w. R. R. Tracks by Engineer

EDWARD Ewing discovered Lying on M. q
w. R. R. Tracks by Engineer
A man was found Friday morning
on the tracks OF the NJ & W. r. r. in a
unconscious condition with his head cut
in several places and his clothes covered
with blood. He proved to be Edward
Ewing of this city ard had apparently
been drinking. Assistance was called
and he was removed to Heaton Hospital
where he was reported to be resting
comfortably at late hour Friday
night.
AS Fred Alexander, an engineer on the
NJ. g. w r.. r. was going to his work at
1920 yesterday morning he thought that
he heard groans coming from the opposite
track than that on which he was walking
An investigation revealed man
lying face downward, covered with blood
and apparently dead. Mr. Alexander
ran to the company's depot on Main
street and telephoned to the police station
for assistance, saying that a man had been
coal shed. Officer Patrick j. Connolly
started for the scene while Officer Joseph
Fitzgerald went for medical assistance
and the ambulance.
Arriving at the scene Officer Connolly
found a man lying face downward on
the side of the track near enough so that
his body touched the rail- The mans
clothes were covered with blood and his
head was terribly mutilated with the
lower part of the scalp torn off for three
inches revealing the bare white skull
to the officer as he gazed at him. Officer
Connolly then removed the injured man
to one side as the $3.50 was due at about
that time and in the position in which
he was lying he surely would have been
killed had he not been discovered at
the time. After he had been taken to
safer ground he opened his eyes and said,
Hello Pat" to the officer thinging
that he was under arrest for intoXication.
Later when he heard that he was to be
taken away in the ambulance he remonstra-
ted for he thought that he was all right and
could not remember how he had come
by his injuries.
DR.. Charles E. Chandler, who had been
summoned, arrived on the scene shortly
after and dressed the mans wounds. He
bore up wonderfully under the severe
pain which he must have undergone and
with the arrival of Volholm's ambulance
was taken to the hospital where he was
made as comfortable as possible. Later
he was placed on the operating table
and the delicate operation of putting his
calp back on his skull undertaken and,
it is thought, successfully.
The authorities think that Ewing, who
had been drinking, was walking up the
ira TX when he fell close to the rail and
was hit by a box from car of the 2:46
to Barre. This theory is further supported
by the fact that his coat was found nearer
the city on the same side of the track
not ten feet from where he had been
lying and it is thought that he had
this on his arm when he lost his balance
and fell Some of the doctors who saw
him, though, advanced the theory that
he had met with foul play for they say
that the gashes made on Ewing's head
could never have been inflicted with
anything but weapon. He was resting
comfortably Friday night and it is
thought that he will pull through.