The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-08-31
RESTS HEAD ON RAILS,
Joe Brady, Workinglnan From
Chicago Found Dead on Track
a Mile North of City.

With his head lying on one side
Of the west Northern Pacific rail, and
his body on the other, a laborine
man by the name of Joe Brady, was
found by a brakeman on freight
train at 4 o'clock Saturday after
noon few rods north of the Stand
ard OIL company's tanks, mile
from the city.
The man was evidently a stranger
in the city, as he had papers on his
pocket from concerns in Chicago
He was about 30 years Of age, wore
pair of blue overralls, and hi.
hair was shaved close on his head
On the left cheek below the eye was
a large mole.
From the position in which the
body was found, and the other evi.
dences at hand. it at first seemed that
the man had laid down carefully up
on the track with his neck on the
rail, inviting the coming of an IN
slant death. If such was his object
even a guillotine could not have per-
formed the operation more neatly.
The condition Of the body proved
that it had remained in the position
In which it was found for three or
four hours, in which case, it is prob
able that at least six trains passed
over him, after the one which caused
his death. The mysterious part of
the case lies in the fact that dozens
OF people had walked along the track
between noon and O'Clock yester-
day. ard it is hardly possible that
this could have occurred without the
discovery of the body In addition to
mans side of the cab of a train 60
ting west, engineers on trains going
east ought to have seen the body.
Loaves of Bread at Side.
At the side of the body lay three
loaves of bread, one of which was
parity eaten. In his pockets were
found so cents in cash and a certif.
cate that he had deposited with the
Chicago Labor Agency, so 1-2 West
Main street. Chicago, the sum of ST.
In return for which the agency had
agreed to get him a job with the
Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul rail-
road at 50 a day as a cement work
er 1t is evident that he had not Sc
Z
been in this part of the country.
Blood carried along the rails west
ward a distance of forty feet proved
that the train which killed him was
gong In that direction.
Fred Shaw. who removed the body
to the Flint-Shaw undertaking rooms
stated that he doubted the suicide
theory, as the man had drawn his
coat tails up behind him under his
head for a pillow, and it looked as
if he had been under the influence
of liquor and sat down with his back
to the tracks to eat his bread, but fin.
ally. growing supplied, had laid hi;
head down on the west rail Will
his coat tails for a pillow. Mr.. Shaw
stated that there were absolutely nt
marks of violence on the body and 4
was evident that the cowcatcher hat
passed entirely over the head, whilJ
the wheels decapitated the man.
Say He Was Drunk
Two women who live in the vicin.
itY of the place where the fatality oc,
cuIned, but who refused 10 give thei
names, stated that they saw Brady
staggering along the track with three
companions about 8 o'clock. All tho
men We're intoxicated. and as tn,
party reached the Standard Oil com
pany's tanks, Brady stopped and sa
down at the edge of the track. tho
| other men going on.