The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-17
Detectives Reach Conclusion That He Was Killed by
 Street Car
MOTORMAN HEARD
 FENDER HUMPING
Got Down But Could Find Nothing Wrong-Body Found by an
 Incoming Car, Badly Mangled

white. man partially identified as Jim Love of Newcastle, Ala, was found dead on the outbound tracks of the South Ensley ear line on the trestle at Third avenue and Sixth street, last night at 11:50 o'clock.
 City Detective Kicks, who was riding in on an Ensley car to report for duty on the morning shift. Motorman Hill, Conductor Handbook and Dispatcher Wardell, all standing on the front plat form of an unbound car. discovered the man lying on the opposite track as the car was passing Sixth street.
 The car was stopped and the four found that the man was dead Police headquarters were notified at once and Detectives Henderson, Jones and War ren hurried to the scene in the patrol wagon. Officer Kicks called up Coroner Brasher, who said that he would allow the body to be moved if a deputy coron- CT could be found The Johns Under- taking company was on the scene a few minutes later, and as MT Warner of that company was deputzed coroner, the remains were removed to their parlors.
 Detectives Investigating the case were Jones, Henderson and Kicks. 1t was evident, they said, from the blood stains and shreds of clothing, that the man had been dragged over twenty feet down the track to the trestle, and both legs were twisted down between the ties. De- tectiye Kicks vouched the opinion that an outbound car had struck him. and that the motor, which extends about foot below the body of the car, had caught the body and dragged 1t down the track
 The body was in horribly twisted condition when found. Several deep cuts were about the head and the right hip seemed to have been dislocated and pushed down between the ties of the trestle.
 Not a single scrap of paper. no let ters, nor any mark of Identification was found on the body. Only 55 cents in small change was picked up by Officer Kicks on the track, scattered along the distance of b feet
 A negro giving his name as Charlie Maddox said that about 10:05 -he had seen an out bound car stop in front of his house. only a few steps from the trestle where the body was found. and that someone got off, replaced the tender and looked about under the body of the car. He could not give the number, of the car in this alleged incident.
 The officers waited until the second inbound Ensley car came. The motor man, j. A. Middleton, asked what was the matter The conductor w R. Chris tian, stepped down and said that they had heard their fender pumping about there when they went out and had gotten down to fixt it, but that they could see nothing.
 That this South Ensley car No. 240 when on it's outbound trip had struck III the conductor nor the motorman knew anything of the accident at the time and that Dispatcher Wardell, then on the back platform, had seen nothing to arouse his suspicion that they had struck anyone. were the conclusions of Detectives Kicks, Jones and Henderson after a thorough investigation of the case
 Motorman Seaborn, who operates the car that passed the scene of the acci- dent just before Motorman Mddletons car. told Officer Kicks that he had noticed man sitting on the outbound track near the trestle about 10:4S o'clock, and it Is the belief of the detectives that this is the same man who was struck and killed.
 After the remains were taken to the establishment of the Johns Undertak- ing company several attempts were made to identify the body. but without success About f2:15 o'clock this morn- ing a man, whose name has not been learned. walked in and asked to see the body. This stranger identified the body as Jim Love, whom. he said, was employed by the Birmingham Con- struction company at Newcastle, In the capacity of engineer.
 Whether the deceased was married or single could not be learned last night. The remains will be held at the rIdr of Jol, ,,Ia,-4 f,rx pany pending a final investigation Of the case by the detectives and the cor oner.
 An incident, which detracted somt what from the sadness of the occa- sion when the crowd was clustered about the mangled body, was an ex- perience of Monroe McEarchern of Ems ley Monroe is just IA; he is intrepid, bold and inquisitiye, like all young sters at that age, so when the cars stopped nearS Sixth street. very nat urally he scramb bled out along with the men to see what was the matter. See ing the crowd about 20 yards away he made a bee line for that place. shout ing "What's the matter?" But no soon- CT had the words come from his mouth than he plunged off the bank and down into the creek beneath the trestle. Now, Monroe is a brave boy and not for the world would he have anyone think different, But he just couldn't help yelling when he felt his feet shoot ing down into the dark abyss and hit that icy water. "Ow-w. somebody reach me" Monroe wasn't satisfied with just falling down into the creek. He land ed on his head in the muck and sand on the bottom and scrambled around for few minutes before he found the top of the water. Then when he stuck his head out, spluttering water. 1t was seen that his cap was still on his head. That caused another laugh and Mon