Eddie Newton survives almost entirely as a name on a piece of sheet music. In 1909 he and lyricist T. Lawrence Seibert published "Casey Jones, The Brave Engineer," a chorus-driven vaudeville arrangement of a song that, by every account gathered here, began as a work song improvised by Wallace Saunders, a Black engine wiper at the Illinois Central's Canton, Mississippi shop, and was carried onto the stage by two touring brothers before Newton and Seibert ever touched it. Drawing on Norm Cohen's standard history of the ballad, one writer puts the transaction bluntly: the pair "took the credit for the song and published it" under their own names. Newton followed with a near-identical brave-rescuer novelty, "Jerry Moran (The Fearless Fireman)," in 1911 — evidence of a working songwriter repeating a formula, not a one-hit accident. No birth date, death date, or word in his own voice has surfaced.