The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-01-01
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Body Of Man Found This
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SOY AN EARLY TRAIN
II Is Not Known Whether
He Fell from Freight Car
or Was on Track

With the head completely severed from
the torso the body OF an unknown man
was found on the main track i'll front
of the Central Vermont station tlis
morning at Leo o'clock, ard all attempts
to identity the remains had been mn
successful at noon, at which time the
body rested in the undertaking rooms
of Perry & Noonan. The man was dis
covered under freight car attached to
the regular morning train due in Barre
at 4:i5 o'clock. The body was lying
between the rails, while the head rested
on the outside border of the track.
Health Officer j. III. Woodruff was noti-
fed and when he arrived at 4:45 o'clock
the body was still warm. After notify
ing States Attorney ]. Ward Carver,
the health officer ordered the remains
moved TO the undertaking rooms, After
wards the states attorney decided that
an autopsy was unnecessary.
BY many it is supposed that the man
came in on the train IN one OF the two
freight cars attached, as he was not seen
in the passenger coaches. That he
slipped in an attempt to alight before
the train stopped is also part OF the
same explanation which is advanced.
OIUeTS WHO vert III titS flNlHltf az lhb
time Of the accident advance the theory
that the man was walking along the
track when the train overlook him.
Trainmen who viewed the remains be-
fore the arrival of the health officer
say that neither the engine nor any OF
the cars bore bloodstains. and there are
those who say that the body lay across
the track before the train arrived. George
Hoyt, baggageman employed on the
night shift, was the first to notice the
body, and he had gone down to the
turning table with the engine before he
caught sight of the man on the tracks
nearly opposite the baggageroom door.
All the forenoon the body was viewed
by persons who hoped to establish some
clue Of Identification. Many trainmen
and section hands were among those who
took look at the body, and it was
noted euriously enough that at least
every second man said he had seen the
face before.
The man had light hair blue eyes
and prominent cheekbones. He may
have been Swede. He would weigh
l65 or 10 pounds and measured about
feet 10 inches. He was about p years
old. Apparently he was man Of spleil-
did physique and his calloused hands and
large muscles gave the impression that
he had been accustomed to hard labor.
He was clean shaven
He was dressed in brown oyeralls and
jumper with gray, double breasted
vest, gray flannel shirt and two gauze
undershirts. One bore the initial ID
in the middle of the breast His trous-
ers were black and his socks gray with
black stripes. On the leg of either sock
someone had embroidered the initials
ID. "" in tan thread His pockets con-
tanned latchkey, two matches and coli
lar buttons. He wore heavy tan shoes,
which had the appearance of having been
wet. None of the articles OF clothing
which he wore bore any marks that
would Indicate where it was purchased
Arrangements for the burial have not
been completed. as the authorities still
hold out hope that interested persons will
appear to establish identification before
the day is over.