The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-07-22
Police Investigating Death of
Bridge Avenue Man Who
Was Run Down by G. & 0.
Freight Train.
ENGINEER DID NOT
SEE TRAIN VICTIM
And Body Was Found Below
the Place Where Carol
Was Struck.-Suicide, Ac-
cident or Murder.

Bert Carol, 45, living on Bridge
avenue, was killed Saturday night
when fast c. & o. freight train No
73, south of the trestle near the city
Jail, struck him, severing his right
arm, cruching his skull and bruisins
his face. The man died about three
o'clock Sunday morning at the hospi
tai. Whether Carols death was &C
cidental, whether he committed sui
eide or whether he was pushed in
front of the train is a problem the
police are working on.
Carol was struck at 10:45, and was
found at IL O'Clock. Near him on the
ground were two soft felt hats. A
man was seen in his company shortly
before the fatal accident.
Carol was found by Frank Rider
Bert Weddings and Fred Smithmeyer
He was lying in a pool of blood, his
head crushed and his right arm hang.
ing by shreds of garment and skin.
He was conscious, but could not eX-
plain the manner in which he received
his injuries. He was taken to the
hospital at once, and expired there
at o'clock.
Some Odd Circumstances.
Carol was known to have started
to visit the city Jail on South Second
street. His reasons for using the
railroad tracks are unknown. He was
struck by a northbound train, yet the
place where he received his injuries
is north of where his body was found.
This leads the police TO suspect some
complications in the strange case.
Corroboration Of the theory of mur
der or suicide Is found in the state.
ment of engineer John Sullivan, whose
train struck Carol. Sullivan states
he did not see the man, although he
is usually especially attentive to
the condition of the track where the
man was killed, because of a switch
near this point. Sullivan says he did
not see Carol or. any one else near
the track when he ran by with his
train.
The police are searching for the
stranger seen with Carol Saturday
night. The description given is very
meager and the police are searching
every clue which might lead to the
disclosure of the identity of the
stranger. Although Carol was con
scious after the mishap, he could not
explain how he came to be on the
track or how he received his injuries
The two felt hats secured after the
accident were taken in charge and
placed in the ambulance. but one OF
them is now missing, and. a promising
clue is lost to the police.
In Carols pockets were found bot
ties of whiskey, but the attending
physician stated the man had not par
taken of the intoxicants. If he had
been on the train, and had fallen be
tween the rails, the fall would have
broken the bottles. If he had been
struck by the engine, he would have
been seen by the engineer and blood
spots would have been left on the pi
lot The man must have either jump
ed before or fallen between the swift
ly moving cars as they rushed by
him, or been showed under them, the
police state.
Carol is survived by a wife and two
children. The funeral will be held
tomorrow afternoon at two o'clock
from 4071A Main street. The burial
will be at Earlham.