John Thomas Broderick was the first of several children born to Thomas Francis Broderick and Anna Hall Broderick. As a child and young man, he lived in different areas of Iowa. For many years he worked with his father at C St P M & O (Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway Company) and was a member of The Brotherhood of Boilermakers and Iron Ship Builders Lodge 204.
John T. Broderick spent much of his adult life traveling and exploring, from mining for gold in Alaska and the Canadian Yukon, to working on steamships and railroads in the Pacific Northwest. His last residence was Portland, Oregon, where he was a member of the Fraternal Order of Eagles.
John's life came to a tragic end in 1915 when he was found dead under suspicious circumstances at the bottom of a railway trestle at Heidel Creek several miles north of Timber, in Washington County, Oregon. His companion was jailed and questioned while the circumstances of Broderick's death were examined. There were no eyewitnesses and the investigators had trouble piecing together the clearly incriminating bits of evidence, so the man was released, although he remained the only possible suspect.
John T. Broderick spent much of his adult life traveling and exploring, from mining for gold in Alaska and the Canadian Yukon, to working on steamships and railroads in the Pacific Northwest. His last residence was Portland, Oregon, where he was a member of the Fraternal Order of Eagles.
John's life came to a tragic end in 1915 when he was found dead under suspicious circumstances at the bottom of a railway trestle at Heidel Creek several miles north of Timber, in Washington County, Oregon. His companion was jailed and questioned while the circumstances of Broderick's death were examined. There were no eyewitnesses and the investigators had trouble piecing together the clearly incriminating bits of evidence, so the man was released, although he remained the only possible suspect.
John Thomas Broderick was the first of several children born to Thomas Francis Broderick and Anna Hall Broderick. As a child and young man, he lived in different areas of Iowa. For many years he worked with his father at C St P M & O (Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway Company) and was a member of The Brotherhood of Boilermakers and Iron Ship Builders Lodge 204.
John T. Broderick spent much of his adult life traveling and exploring, from mining for gold in Alaska and the Canadian Yukon, to working on steamships and railroads in the Pacific Northwest. His last residence was Portland, Oregon, where he was a member of the Fraternal Order of Eagles.
John's life came to a tragic end in 1915 when he was found dead under suspicious circumstances at the bottom of a railway trestle at Heidel Creek several miles north of Timber, in Washington County, Oregon. His companion was jailed and questioned while the circumstances of Broderick's death were examined. There were no eyewitnesses and the investigators had trouble piecing together the clearly incriminating bits of evidence, so the man was released, although he remained the only possible suspect.
John T. Broderick spent much of his adult life traveling and exploring, from mining for gold in Alaska and the Canadian Yukon, to working on steamships and railroads in the Pacific Northwest. His last residence was Portland, Oregon, where he was a member of the Fraternal Order of Eagles.
John's life came to a tragic end in 1915 when he was found dead under suspicious circumstances at the bottom of a railway trestle at Heidel Creek several miles north of Timber, in Washington County, Oregon. His companion was jailed and questioned while the circumstances of Broderick's death were examined. There were no eyewitnesses and the investigators had trouble piecing together the clearly incriminating bits of evidence, so the man was released, although he remained the only possible suspect.
