Clark County NV Archives Obituaries.....MURRAY, Dennis April 22 1917
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Las Vegas Age - 4/28/1917
LAS VEGAS AGE

4/28/1917



MONTANA MAN A SUICIDE



DENNIS MURRAY COMMITS RASH ACT IN LOCAL YARDS LAST SUNDAY MORNING



    Last Sunday morning, Dennis MURRAY a miner recently employed near

Phoenix, Arizona, stood beside the railroad track near the little ice house

south of the depot and watched the switch engine backing toward him.  When

the back of the engine was almost abreast of him, he leaped forward and

threw himself under the wheels, his body being cut to pieces.  Fred TISDIAL,

the fireman, saw the man's rash act and called to engineer O. L. PIFER to

stop as a man had been run over.  When the engine came to a standstill the

fragments of the body were taken from under the fourth car from the engine.

    A coroner's jury after hearing the testimony of J. H. LIGHTFOOT, Fred

TISDIAL and others brought in a verdict that "Dennis MURRAY aged about 30

years, came to his death in the yards of the Salt Lake Route in Las Vegas

between 10:30 and 10:"40 a.m. April 22, 1917 by jumping under engine and

train with suicidal intent."  The jury was G. H. FRENCH, foreman, W. J.

REID, M. J. BURNES, Anthony SCHWEBIG, R. E. ROCKWELL and Lou MARTIN.

    MURRAY was a member of the I. W. W. and was known as "Shoveling Murray."

From letters on his person it was ascertained that he had relatives in

Butte, Mont., Mrs. Margaret MURPHY of 506 Jasper Street and Mrs. Mary KEYS

both replying to messages sent by coroner HARKINS.  The body was buried at

the expense of the county.





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