NEWS: Frank Davis Dies Aboard Train No. 4, 1918, of Patton, Cambria County, PA

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Altoona Tribune
Monday morning, September 9, 1918
page 1

NAVAL RECRUIT IS FOUND DEAD IN CAR

Frank Davis, of Patton, Dies Mysteriously Aboard Train No. 4 Yesterday

  Frank Davis, aged 23, of Patton, a naval recruit en route from his home to 
Philadelphia to report for duty, was found dead in the toilet of a Pennsy 
passenger coach attached to train No. 4, yesterday morning.

  Conductor Lytle discovered the young man's body at 3:05 a.m. after the train 
left Marysville.  The odor of some drug was strong in the room and it is 
supposed the recruit took his life, employing poison.  No further information 
was available at Pennsy offices this morning concerning the case.  The body was 
turned over to a Harrisburg undertaker and autopsy may reveal the cause of 
death.  Davis boarded the train at Cresson.