Quinn, John 1868 - 1912

QUINN

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Date: 2/27/2020 at 10:15:56

Source: Twice-A-Week Plain Dealer Dec. 3, 1912, P-FP, C-6

John Quinn, of Forest City township was found dead near Adams, Minn., on Saturday morning, on the railroad track. He was presumably murdered as his throat was cut and his head badly smashed.

Source: Twice-A-Week Plain Dealer Dec. 10, 1912, P-2, C-2

Killed By Train Near Adams.
The lifeless body of John Quinn, who lived east of Chester about three miles was found Saturday morning about 8 o’clock lying near the Milwaukee railroad track some three quarters of a mile east of Adams. It was evident that the man had been dead for some hours, as his body was cold and stiff.
Dr. Henslin of this village, the county coroner, was called and the verdict of the inquest was that Quinn came to his death by being accidently struck at the base of the skull while either attempting to board or jump from a moving train. The last seen of him was in Adams about fifteen minutes before the arrival of the evening passenger, when he was seen walking on the depot platform. Whether he got on the train and was killed trying to get off or tried to climb on the moving train is not known.
Quinn was 45 years of age and was unmarried. He and his mother lived on a farm east of Chester. He went up to Adams Thanksgiving Day, returning to Chester the same evening, but went again the next day, intending to return at night, but his untimely death intervened.— LeRoy Independent.

Transcriber’s Note: Find a Grave shows he is buried in Pleasant Hill Cemetery and was born May 9, 1868 and died Nov. 28, 1912.

Pleasant Hill Cemetery
 

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