The Paducah Sun

His Head Crushed in and Mystery Surrounds His Death-Was on His Way to Paducah.

FUNERAL WAS HELD TODAY

Mr. Dalton Parrish of Mechanicsburg, aged 23, was found dead yesterday morning early near the Illinois Central tracks at Wingo, Graves county, thirty-five miles below Paducah. One side of his head was crushed and an arm was broken. Near him on the ground was a letter addressed to Master Mechanic T. F. Barton of Paducah, and in his hat was a train check indicating that he had given the conductor a ticket to Jackson, Tenn. It is not known how the young man came to his death, but there are strong suspicions of foul play. He had been working at Clinton, Ky., but Friday his father here, who is employed at Kilgore's heading factory, received a letter from him that he would be home Sunday. The next they heard was when they received the news of his death yesterday. His relatives do not understand what the conductor's check to Jackson, Tenn., was doing in his hat when he was coming this way, nor what he was doing off the train, unless foully dealt with and thrown off. There is no reason, so far as they know, why he should be on the ground at all, as he was on his way to Paducah. The coroner's jury could learn nothing that would shed light on the mystery, however, and the verdict was that he was killed by some train. The deceased was married and was formerly employed at Kilgore's here. He had been in Clinton about three weeks. His father, J. M. Parrish, is one of the best known men of the South Side. The remains of the unfortunate young man reached the city this morning and the funeral took place at 10 o'clock from his home on Ashbrook avenue, burial at Oak Grove.