Obituaries
JOHN BEATTY OBIT/NEWS STORY
TRAIN CUTS OFF HEAD OF JASONVILLE MAN
John Beatty's body Found on the Southern Indiana Tracks at Latta Yards
Jasonville, Ind..Jan 25, 1909
John Beatty, a young man of about twenty-five years of age, was killed at the Latta yards, one-half mile south of this place some time Saturday night by the midnight coal train on the Southern Indiana railroad. Beatty, who lived in Coalmont, had gone to Linton on the evening passenger Saturday night and told some of his friends that he would return on the coal train which passes through Coalmont late in the night. His body was found at about four o'clock Monday morning by a switch crew which had been called out early. The body when found was lying alongside the rail with the head cut off; the left foot and left forearms also were cut off. The switch crew brought the body to the undertaking establishment of H. W. Foreman in this city. After daylight, the undertaker went to the place where Beatty had been killed and after a search found Beatty's head which had rolled down an embankment. Beatty was identified by a letter written by a Linton girl and addressed to John Beatty care of Vigo County Jail, Terre Haute. Beatty had just served a forty-five day jail sentence in the Terre Haute jail for carrying concealed weapons. John Beatty is the son of Herrod Beatty who was the first-born son of Marshall Beatty and Mary Ann Peyton. This article is the exact wording as recorded in the Terre Haute Tribune.
Posted by Loretta Teeters