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Accidental Death From Suffocation

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Parent Issue
Day
19
Month
September
Year
1902
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

That was the verdict of the coroner's jury in the case of the two strangers found dead in bed in the Newman House

The two men who were found dead in room 20 of the Newman house Monday morning came to their death by accidentally turning on the gas. Such was the verdict of the jury in the coroner's inquest Wednesday. The verdict was as follows:

"We, the undersigned jurors duly drawn to examine into the cause of the death of one Joseph Kierscki and one Wladyslaw Bruski, who were found dead in room 20 at the Newman house in the city of Ann Arbor at the hour of 7 o'clock or thereabouts on the morning of Sept 15th, A. D. 1902, find that these men came to their death by suffocation from breathing illuminating gas which was left turned on by themselves. accidentally."

The evidence showed that the account given in the Argus on the night of the finding of the bodies was the only correct account published, the evidence being the same in detail as given in Monday evening's Argus.

The bodies of the unfortunate men were shipped to Posen, Mich. They were brothers-in-law, Kierscki, who was 30 years of age, leaving a wife and four children, and Bruski being but 18 and unmarried. They were fairly prosperous farmers.