Charles Kuester
Cincinnati Enquirer, Monday, 8 February 1904, page 10
KILLED
Two citizens of Kentucky were found dead on trestles on this side
of the river yesterday morning. One was G H Schmitz, aged 31 years of 99 Watkins
street, Covington and the other was Charles Kuster (sic) aged 24 years, of 336
East Ninth street, Newport Ky.
Kuster's dead body was found in the weeds under the trestle of the Norfolk and Western Railroad, near Langdon avenue, Norwood. He was an epileptic and being 6 feet 4 inches tall was so powerful, when in a fit, that he had to be strapped to a bed. He eluded his watchers Saturday morning and it is presumed was walking along the 25 foot trestle when he fell off in a fit, breaking his neck. He may have fallen in trying to get out of the way of a train. His clothes were saturated with mud and water when found, showing that he had lain under the trestle before the rainstorm of yesterday morning.
He was identified at the morgue by a card in his pocket and was removed to his home.