[Archive]

Posted By: barrysloate

I read a Delahanty biography too, and on the night he died he was acting pretty rowdy. In fact, the last months of his life his behavior was very erratic and he was in some kind of depression, which caused him to drink.

When he was kicked off the train he decided on his own to try and cross a dangerous bridge in the dark. He either fell off it, or got into some kind of altercation with a night watchman. Because it all happened in pitch darkness, nobody ever found out the true story. The family filed a lawsuit but to this day nobody can say with certainty what caused his death.