Show MURDEROUS CRUELTY the idaho register tells the story atory of a man whose legs were cut off by bv an 0 S L train 7 lie he had bad lor six six weeks been porter at atone one of ho he hotels holds in idaho falls and was well liked ile he had concluded to go up to hutte butte hoping to obtain a similar position at a satisfactory salary and as he be had bad but little money money he be tided to beat his hia way i train left idaho falls at about 1030 iu in the evening and half balf an hour afterward cries were heard from froin the direction of the ailway track and upon investigation invests in vesti a it was found that this roan man ceorge eorge smith by name was lying there with both le legs crushed and ut off just below the knee lie he bad just recovered consciousness the man was in such agony that after his removal to a saloon he begged 0 the proprietor to lo shoot him and put him out of his misery when questioned as to the cause of bis accident he claimed that the on ductor and brakeman finding dim riding without a ticket had bad deliberately thrown him from the i sin ile he was taken to the county hospital at blackfoot where he died at hour next nest mornan inquest was held and the trainmen swore they knew nothing of the matter until informed by telegraph when they reached market maii et lake alipy were exonerated from a 1 blame this is usually the care cafe the tha brutality of trainmen to tramps is tell ell known sometimes force is necessary to eject a tramp from a t ain but in many instances when hey bey find he has no money to lizibet beibe them bern t with wilh he is kicked and beaten and sometimes ejected when the rain brain is in motion if he be is ia injured lie lia word of the trainmen is in anable taken in preference to that of an unknown stranger and C t killed outright no questions are asked it is taken for grunted granted that ue fell off why in the instance referred to inith should ifould wish to or even think hink of attributing his accident acs ident to violence on th the e part of the trainmen i hard to understand his residence in the town had been of efficiently long duration to convince those with whom he be became acquainted that he be was not a inious hobo bobo but an honest respectable pec table eort of man and that such a man should deliberately tell a ie which might imprison or even ause the execution of two men who had never injured him seems incredible many trainmen make as much noney out of men who are trying to 10 ride without paying full fare as their calary amounts to lo for one JT jr two dollars they will wiil carry cany a box car passenger pasE paseE enger over a division and Y woo cc to the nian mau whom they hink can pay and will not the law strictly forbids trainmen from ejecting a person when the train is in motion but in many instances men are kicked off when the train Ls is running at a high rate or of speed and the brakemen laugh to see bee them rolling head over heels beets occasionally casio nally a is shot by au n IT A a io in ilone a to catch the murderers but hen a tramp is kicked arand killed no ijo questions are asked A few ke archin g investigations into such cases would make some of the brakemen who are brutal more careful they havea have a perfect to eject a passenger who will not or cannot any but only when the train is at a standstill and then with no more forca than is necessary A few convictions for murder would put a stop to the class claes of murderous cruelty referred to had smith been an influential citizen it is safe eafe to assume hut abut the serious charge lie he made would have at least been sufficient to cause the binding over for trial of the men he accused of his murder |