Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Bell, Isaac G. August 18, 1914
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Virginian Pilot and The Norfolk Landmark August 19, 1914

                        MANGLED BODY FOUND WAS ISAAC G. BELL
  Coroner Adjourns Until Saturday Inquest Into Death On Lamberts Point Tracks

Mangled almost beyond recognition, the body of Isaac G. Bell, a plumber, living 
at 1439 Forty-first Street, Lamberts Point, was found lying alongside the tracks 
of the Virginia Railway and  Power Company, Redgate Avenue and Langley Road, at 
1:25 o'clock yesterday morning. The body was identified about 9:30 o'clock 
yesterday morning by Bell's mother, brother and several friends.
Bell's body was found lying on the left side of the outbound track to Lamberts 
Point by W.W. Powers, motorman of car 3166, which was coming to Norfolk from 
Lamberts Point on the last trip up for the night. Powers reversed the car and 
carried it back to the Lamberts Point police station, where Sergeant Freeman and 
Patrolman Roache boarded it and were carried to the scene of the accident.
Dr. R.S. Kight, city coroner, was notified and summoned a jury which viewed the 
body yesterday at H.D. Oliver's Funeral Apartments, 610-12 Freemason Street and 
adjourned until noon Saturday, when they will meet in the high constable's 
office. W.W. Powers, motorman, and R.P. Oswall, conductor, of car 3166 were 
arrested on the charge of accidental homicide. The cases were continued in 
Police Court yesterday until August 28. Both men were released under bond for 
their appearance.
Powers and Oswall deny knowing anything of the accident until they found the 
body.  
According to Sergeant Freeman, Bell was dragged 57 feet by the car. While no one 
saw the accident, it is thought that Bell, walking to Lamberts Point, was 
overtaken by the car at Langley Road and attempted to board  it on the left 
side. A car ticket was found alongside his hat, which was found 57 feet ahead of 
the spot where the body was found. While two of Bell's trousers pockets were 
turned inside out, he had $3.65 and a number of soda water checks in one pocket. 
He also wore a stickpin. 
Bell is said to have been seen by two men at 12:40 o'clock yesterday morning on 
one of the Ghent and West Redgate Avenue cars. It is thought that he got off the 
car at the terminus near Langley Road and was walking home when the Lamberts 
Point car overtook him.
Bell was 34 years old and a native of Norfolk. He is survived by a widow and 
five small children; his father, N.T. Bell; three brothers, W.N. Bell of Mathews 
County and J.C. and T. H. Bell, both of Norfolk; three sisters, Mrs. O.J. Hurst 
of Mathews County, Mrs. C.G. Bowers of Norfolk and Mrs. T.A. Brown of Baltimore.
The funeral will be held at 4 o'clock this afternoon at H.D. Oliver's Funeral 
Apartments, 610-12 Freemason Street.  Burial will be in Elmwood Cemetery.
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BELL - Suddenly, Tuesday, August 18, 1914, at 1 o'clock a.m., ISAAC G. BELL, 
aged 34 years.
Services at H.D. Oliver's Funeral Apartments, 610-12 Freemason Street, THIS 
(Wednesday) AFTERNOON at 4 o'clock. Friends of the family are invited to attend. 
Interment Elmwood Cemetery.


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