Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-22
TRAIN ENDS LIFE or !
DALLAS, $40 CLERK, !
) SUED FOR $4,000
Wife and Several Hundred
Persons See Him Virtusllv
Cut in Half at Sixtietb
Street Station. II

Death under the wheels of an eIs,.,.,
train at the Goth street station in furI
sight of his wife and several hundred r,,'
sons this morning ended the flnanc,,,
troubles OF John j. Dallas, Of 15,s No,,h
SD street. the former bookkeeper rrA.
was being sued for $4,000 by the 7, D
White Company, jewelers., OF Ninth ana
Chestnut streets. Dallas fell beneath ~.
train in such a way that both suloId.
and accident theories are tenable.
Dallas and his wife were on their w.v
to Norristown for the second dav of ~.
equity suit. They were walking SLOWLY
along the platform Of the e0th street alta.
tion of the elevated. AS westbouna
train drew into the station Dallas stenn.s
to the edge of the platform and turn,a
until his back was to the rails Than \.
toppled over. Two cars passed over hls
body, virtually cutting him in half.
Mrs. Dallas turned just in time to sac
her husbands body dropping over ,bs
edge of the platform. The next instar.
the train shot past her. She BEGAN.
hysterical and was taken to her homs
by witnesses. The mutiliated body was
taken to the Homeopathic Hospital
morgue.
FALL SEEMED DELIBERATE
Men and women who saw Dallas fan
to his death from the eastbound plat
form say that his fall seemed to hays
been deliberately planned. They declare
he gauged the distance carefully 80 that
his body would fall directly over the far
track where he could not escape the
wheels. The heavy train was under
brakes at the time and was slowing UP.
Owing to it's weight the motorman had
not the slightest chance to prevent the
killing.
DALLAS FACED TWO CHARGES
Two different actions were under
way against Dallas, one the equity suit
and the other on criminal charges. He
was under total of 5000 bail on the
charges of attempting to blow up the
jewery office where he had been en-
ployed, and embezzlement. 1t Is be.
lieved that the fear of facing these
criminal charges led him to take his
life. A desire to soften the blow to his
wife is thought to have made him try
to make his death look like an acc.
Gent.
Judge Aaron L. Swartz, at Norrstown.
decided at 1850 o'clock to continue the
case against Mr.. Dallas to give time for
further action. Counsel for Mr.. White
intimated that the hearings would 80 on.
IL ,In ,t III ha ap,th-
stituted The Court was notified by the
EVENING LEDGER of Dallas death and
the fact that his body had been taken to
the morglo or the Homeopathic Hospital.
1t was learned today that Dallas moved
from ArdmOre to the more modest resi-
dent in 62d street to reduce expenses at
the advice OF his counsel, after he had
declared that he had no money. He also
sold his automobile. Mr.. White testified
yesterday that Dallas told him he had
no money, but he Is said to have carried
$4,000 life insurance, and that he was
worth $4,000 in addition.
Some of the witnesses from this city
were on the train that killed Dallas Most
of them continued to NOrriStown after
traffic was resumed. unaware that the
man ground to death under the wheels
was Dallas.
The equity case against Dallas TO re-
cover $4,000 he was alleged 10 nave eih'
bezzled was started last spring at Nor
ristown, but after one day the court ad'
tourned for the summer. Immediately
after that offers of settlement were MADE
by Dallas and were rejected as unsatis'
factory.
Dallas was a bookkeeper in the employ
OF the jewelry firm. In the testimony
Yesterday 1t was brought out that ap'
parently on nothing but his small salary,
so a week, he lived in sumptuous stylem
Ardmore and owned an automobile