Andy Gamm
GAMM, ANDY
Newspaper, March 17, 1898
IS IT MURDER?
BODY OF A DECOMPOSED DEAD MAN FOUND FLOATING IN A RAILROAD TANK.
The body of a white man, supposed to be Andy Gamm, a bridge carpenter and until recently employed by the Houston and Texas Central railroad company, was found Monday morning floating in the rail tank, 5-miles south of McKinney. W. W. Tichnor, the pump engineer at the tank, made the discovery.
Justice of the Peace Faulkner and county Attorney Mangum went to Allen and began an inquest at once but the verdict has not yet been rendered owing to delay in finding the dead man’s brother and other important reasons. All who viewed the body, which was buried the same evening in the Allen cemetery, are of the opinion that the man had been murdered, as one of his eyeballs was gone and his head was crushed. The body had evidently been in the water several days. A $1000 accident insurance policy was found in one of the dead man’s pockets bearing the inscription “Andy Gamm, 555 Elm St., Dallas.” Bill McCargo foreman of the bridge gang knew a man by the name of Andy Gamm who, he said, once worked for him and described him as a German, past middle age. His brother is supposed to be a resident of Philadelphia and the insurance policy is may payable to him.
Newspaper, March 17, 1898
IS IT MURDER?
BODY OF A DECOMPOSED DEAD MAN FOUND FLOATING IN A RAILROAD TANK.
The body of a white man, supposed to be Andy Gamm, a bridge carpenter and until recently employed by the Houston and Texas Central railroad company, was found Monday morning floating in the rail tank, 5-miles south of McKinney. W. W. Tichnor, the pump engineer at the tank, made the discovery.
Justice of the Peace Faulkner and county Attorney Mangum went to Allen and began an inquest at once but the verdict has not yet been rendered owing to delay in finding the dead man’s brother and other important reasons. All who viewed the body, which was buried the same evening in the Allen cemetery, are of the opinion that the man had been murdered, as one of his eyeballs was gone and his head was crushed. The body had evidently been in the water several days. A $1000 accident insurance policy was found in one of the dead man’s pockets bearing the inscription “Andy Gamm, 555 Elm St., Dallas.” Bill McCargo foreman of the bridge gang knew a man by the name of Andy Gamm who, he said, once worked for him and described him as a German, past middle age. His brother is supposed to be a resident of Philadelphia and the insurance policy is may payable to him.
