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Found Dead in Bed
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Mrs. Louis Heater, for some time a resident of Bow Creek township, was
found dead in her bed one morning last week by her eight year old son, her
husband being absent from home. A coroner's inquest was held over
the body and after careful investigation returned a verdict showing that
death was the result of heart disease. A very pitiable story comes
to us of her death. Mr. Heater was away at work and Mrs. Heater and
her six children, the oldest being eight years of age and the youngest ten
months, were at home alone. On the evening before her death she was
not feeling well and according to the little son's evidence he had
prepared and given her some medicine just before he retired. Along
in the night he heard the baby crying and knowing of his mother's illness
went to her bed and took the baby to bed with him. When morning came
he got up and called to his mother, getting no response he went to the
bedside and tried to rouse her. Getting no response he dressed the
other children and loading the three smaller ones in a hand cart the six
started out for their grandparents several miles away. Thus they
went until the George Haynes home was reached where Mrs. Haynes seeing
them thought something must be wrong to force six as little fellows as
they were out in the cold so early in the morning, so she stopped them to
inquire the cause. The oldest told her his mama was asleep and he
could not wake her. A telephone message sent Charley Haynes, the
nearest neighbor, to the home where he found the mother of the little tots
cold in that sleep from which there is no waking, death having come to her
some time during the night, presumably earlier than when the baby
cried. In making the trip the little fellows did they must have
suffered terribly from the cold and we are told that one little girl's
feet were frosted while another's fingers were frozen. |
