Greenwood Colliery, Minooka

Greenwood Colliery, Minooka

Monday, February 6, 2012

Death of Thomas Kearney was Accidental

Scranton Tribune - June 21, 1898

Death Was Accidental
Jury in the Thomas Kearney Case So Decided

Dr. Walter M. Reedy, acting as deputy coroner, conducted an inquest at the office of Coroner Longstreet in the case of Thomas Kearney, the 8-year-old boy of Minooka, who was drowned in a cave last Thursday.

The verdict was to the effect that death was accidental. John Kane, William Holleran, Patrick Coyne, Michael Lydon, John Coyne, and Justice of the Peace, M.J. O'Neill, all of Minooka, comprised the jury.

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