Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1910-10-07
RAISES UMBRELLA
TO SCREEN TRAIN
THAT KILLS HIM
Shutting Out View of Approach
ing Locomotive, Newark Man
Commits Suicide.
DESP0NDENT ON ACCOUNT
OF LOSS OF HIS POSITION
Sober Until Discharged a Month
Ago, lie Vainly Tried to
Drown Grief in Drink. &

Despondent because Of his failure 20
find work. John c. Doyle, so years old.
who boarded at Orange today
stood on the tracks of the Lackawanna
railroad at Boyden street, raised an
umbrella to hide from his sight an ap-
preaching eastbound train and calmly
waited to be ground to sdeath beneath
the locomotives wheels.
Thomas Banks, of 1856 eOrange street.
who Is foreman on The Lsekawanna
coal trestle at the place where the sui
eide occurred. shouted and waved to
Doyle as the train bore down upon
him, but did not even succeeded in
attracting the mans attention.
According to Mrs. Dora Eisenmann,
Fwho has been Doyle's landlady for
four years. he had been, employed in a
local tannery until about month ago.
when he was discharged Until that
Tune Doyle had been man of sober
and Industrious habits. and in every
respect model boarder. The loss of
his job, however, says his landlady
seemed sore blow to- him He began
to drink heavily. and was intoxicated
most of the time.
About week ago Mrs. Eisenmann
informed her boar1er that she was
about to give up herfNewark house and
move to Arlington.
Said He Would Soon Not Need to Board.
"All right" she says Doyle REPLIED.
Il won't go with you for I'm not going
to have need of boarding houses much
longer"
Mrs Eisenmann chose today as her
moving day, and Doyle bade her good
by as he left the house this morning
He went straight to the Boyden street
tracks and, as he passed the coal
trestle. hooded to several of the rail-
way employees whom he knew. Des-
pite the fact that the rain was fallins,
Doyle's seedy umbrella was closed and
packed under his arm as with de-
jected step he started across the
tracks.
Reaching the third pair OF rails.
+ Doyle heard the rumble of an east
bound train as 1t approached. He stood
still. glanced up and down the track.
and when the train was seventy or
eighty feet away, suddenly raised his
umbrella, held 1t before his face, and
turning toward the train, waited
The engine driver frantically pulled
whistle and bell and threw in his
brakes To stop the fast train in the
short space that intervened between
the locomotive and the queer figure on
the track was impossible. and with
speed scarcely 1essened it struck Doyle.
Body Crushed by Locomotive.
The man fell to the fender, and his
feet becoming entangled in its steel
bars he was carried along for hun
dred feet until his broken body was
flung to one side and lay huddled
across the railroad ties.
Passengers. surprised by the stop
ping of the train, rushed out, and the
workmen on the coal trestle, hurrying
to where Doyle's body lay, picked It
up and carried it away.
County Physician Mckenzie was
notified of the death and ordered that
the body be removed to Mullins
morgue, where the railroad employees
made formal identification.
! Doyle's landlady says that he had
relatives living in Chicago. An at
tempt will be made to communicate
with them and inform them of the
suicide.