The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1915-11-25
Was in Pool Hall

was IN FOOL Hall
According TO the testimony brought
out at the coroner's inquest, SAYS the
Huronite, Mr.. Adamson was in August
Baum's pool hall until about $50
o'clock. Mr.. Baum stated that he was
apparently having a row with Frank
Gable, being in the same crowd with
him and several others. Gable and
Adamson were scuffling, so he
stated, and the pool hall owner sep
arated them and ordered them from
the place. Mr.. Adamson, with several
others, went out the back door into the
alley.
According to Mr.. Fairness, the dead
mans right ear and shoulder and the
right side of his neck and breast bear
black marks and it is thought he was
struck from the side with a large stick
or pipe. Circumstancial evidence
points to Gable as the man who COM
mitted the deed.
Scott at Drunk Story
The mans Brookings relatives AXE
no stock in the story that Mr.. Adam
son was merely drunk when thrown in
Jail. Mr.. Baum, the pool hall owner,
testified at the inquest that he acted
queerly and he supposed him to be in
toxicated, but he could not remember
Of smelling any liquor on him. Thomas
Lauters, a neighbor, testified that Mr..
Adamson was a mar of absolutely
sober habits and was almost always at
home nights. Others who testified as
to his character showed that no foun-
dation can be laid for the story that
he was drunk. Whether a post-mortem
examination of the body would be
made could not be learned.
Mr.. Adamson was born in Moody
county and reared in Brookings and
is well known here. He attended the
Brookings schools and later was EN-
ployed in the Northwestern round
house in this city. About two and one-
half years ago he was transferred to
the ~roundhouse at Centerville and last
July was promoted to the position of
foreman Of the truck gang in the
Huron roundhouse. He was consider
ed one of the Northwestern's best
roundhouse men and his Brookings
friends and relatives deprecate any
stories of him being drunk.
Mr.. Fairness says the city of Huron
is responsible for his death as nothing
was done toward providing medical at
tention for him. Death, it is claimed,
was caused by blood CLOTHING around
the heart which could have been pre-
vented had a physician been called i'm
mediately. Mr.. Fairness stated it is
probable the Northwestern railroad
will assist in pushing the case and al
ready a competent lawyer has been
hired to investigate the matter and
start proceedings.
T~hirty-two Years Old
Melvin Adamson was born in Moody
county, South Dakota, February rs,
1883, and departed this life November
81, 1915, aged thirty-two years, ten
months and twenty-six days. January
25th, 1904, he was united in marriage
to Miss Yulah Simkins, who with four
children survives him.
Mr.. Adamson was in the employ of
the Northwestern Railway Company
and was an industrious and faithful
workman. His untimely departure is
much to be regretted and the bereaved
family have the sympathy of the en-
tire community.
He leaves to mourn, besides his i'm
mediate family, his mother, Mrs. Eric
Fairness; two sisters, Mrs. Adam
Chaser of Lucas, S. D., and Mrs.
Charles Isom of Bookings, and n
brother, William Adamson, also of
Brookings, besides a number of rela-
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