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Hillsboro, TX Fall from Train, Nov 1941

Posted April 6th, 2009 by Linda Horton

Fall From Train Fatal

HILLSBORO, Texas, Nov. 6. (AP)--Justice of the Peace Tom Sanders returned a verdict Thursday saying that Walter H. Brown, 37, of Sherman came to his death by falling from a freight train south of Itasca. Brown's body was found Thursday on the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railway right of way. In Waco, Charles Brown, 6, the victim's son, told police his father, with whom he was riding atop the train, lost his balance and fell.

Dallas Morning News, Dallas, TX 7 Nov 1941

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