Pike-Spalding County GaArchives Obituaries.....Huckaby, Benjamin G. September 30, 1922
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The Macon Telegraph, October 3, 1922

Charge Neglect of Ben Huckaby
Say Dead Body Merely Dumped in Box, and Buried
He Was Killed By Train
Claim Railway Officials Made No Effort to Identify

Griffin, Ga., October 2. - Developments took a decided turn today in the case 
of Ben Huckaby, whose body was found beside the tracks of the Central of 
Georgia Railway near Forsyth sometime Saturday. It is supposed that Huckaby 
was riding on a train of that company when he fell off and was killed by the 
wheels of the cars.

The body was not identified, it was stated, and the officials of the railway 
company are said to have made no efforts to ascertain whose body it was. It is 
alleged that no inquest whatever was held over the mutlitated body, but that 
it was placed in a wooden box and buried in a hole dug on the right of way of 
the railway company. It is said that the body was in no way prepared for 
burial, but that it was merely dumped in the box and buried.

It seems the dead man was accompanied on the fatal trip by at least one 
companion. This companion missed Huckaby on reaching Macon. Later he read a 
press dispatch saying that an unknown man had been found along the tracks of 
the Central of Georgia. On investigation he found that it was Huckaby. The 
dead man, it is said, at the time he was identified wore a cap in which his 
name and address plainly appeared. It is charged here that no efforts were 
made to learn the identity of the man, but rather the fact of his tragic death 
was suppressed.

A local undertaker was employed to go to the place along the right of way 
where the box with the mutilated body had been buried, disinter the body, 
bring it to Griffin and prepare it for burial. Burial took place this morning 
at Williamson.


Additional Comments:
Son of William P. and Martha Bethune Huckaby

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