INFANT DIES FROM EFFECTS OF HOT WIRE
AROUND NECK
Undertaker S.W. Gibson reports a most
shocking death which took place Thursday night at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ab Crabtree, a few miles east of this city, when their six-months-old
baby girl, Hannah, died from the effects of a red hot wire which had been
placed around its neck in the yard by some small children who were engaged in
playful pranks at the time.
It seems that a long
wire clothes line had fallen into a bed of
live coals, where the family washing had been recently done, and the
children got hold of one end of the wire some distance from the hot portion and
in throwing the wire about in their play, it looped around the neck of the babe
at the point where it was the hottest and before the child could be rescued
from its horrible situation, it had received fatal burns, death resulting soon
afterwards.
The funeral services
were held this afternoon from the family home, Rev. R.H. Autrey
officiating. Interment
in Spring Grove cemetery. S.W.
Gibson had charge of the funeral.