Obituary

The ground-up body of a man was identified as that of Boyd Arrowsmith at Halstead Sunday, August 6, 1933. He was killed at the Paxton crossing when struck by the Santa Fe's redball freight No. 42 at 12:35 Sunday morning, having walked in front of the onrushing train.

In fact, the length of time Arrowsmith was on the track in front of the train was so short the engineer did not see him at all and the fireman, Frank Smith, had only a suspicion raised in his mind that anyone had been struck by the locomotive. Arrowsmith smashed one hand painfully just a few days before and was doing much walking at night. Because of the pain and its absorbing throbs, it is the opinion of friends that he began walking down the track without noticing the oncoming locomotive.

Dr. M. C. Martin, coroner, called a coroner's jury Monday who decided that Boyd Arrowsmith died by accident unavoidable on the part of the Santa Fe railroad. Jurrors were C. A. Smith, Walter Gressinger, O. R. Willm, J. Bierschbach, Maurice Long and John Cathcart.

Mr. Arrowsmith is a son of one of the county's pioneer families. He lived in the county most of his life, much of the time on a farm a few miles of the crossing where he was killed. He leaves a widow and seven children.

Funeral services were held at Halstead Tuesday and he was laid to rest in the Halstead Cemetery.