Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1911 — MAN KILLED AT THAYER. [ARTICLE]

MAN KILLED AT THAYER.

Friday morning the body of a man was discovered on the station platform at Thayer. When found he was lying on his face, with his feet nearly touching the east rail of the track. Two lifts of the heels of each of his shoes, were found

about ten rods north of where the body was found; showing that the train struck him was going north. Several bad gashes were found on the left Side of the face and the left side of hits head was badly crushed, which wc%ild indicate he was sitting facing the west. The true story of his death will probably never be known. He was 29 years old and unmarried. The coroner of Newton county rendered a verdict, we understand, of accidental death. The name of the man was Arthur Whiteside. Undertaker H. V. Weaver was called and prepared the body for burial. The body was shipped Friday night by the train that is due to pass this station at 10:27 p. m., to. his home at Hendersonville, North Carolina. The remains were accompanied by his brother, Solon Whiteside.—<Lowell Tribune.