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John Greenman's Sudden Death

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Day
16
Month
February
Year
1888
Copyright
Public Domain
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At G p. m. last Saturday, George Detterly, wbile walkini? down Division-st, saw a lad, John I. Greenman, running across from Detroit-st. to Division-st through the DeForest place, and saw him fall into a lilac bmh. He went to the boy, and found that he was dead. There was a slightscratch on bis face, probablj caused when he feil against the bushes. Air. Detterly ca'.led Isaac Perrine, and together tbey earried the corpse into Mr. Perrine's room, and sent for Dr. XV. B. Smith The body is very small for a 15-year oíd boy and waa Icund in a ternbly emaciated' condition. An inquest was held Sundav forenoon bv Coroner Üartin Clark io O M. Martin'. i,ndertaking establishmenf. Tbe iurors were Isaac Perrine, A. II. King, Q. H. Milltr, Geo. W Cropgpy, George Alexander, and c.uiue r reeman. The father of the bov Isaac Greenman, oí the Fifth ward, was placed on the witness stand ; also the two men who p:cked him up, and Dr. Smith who made the post mortem examination Dr. Smith said that the body showed a ack o( muscular developement. The r -art lungs, ai,J internal organs looked flibby' and Éoft. Io the absence of an examination of the contents of the stomacb he thmks the boy died of syncope. It could bave been cauied by exhaustion and exposure to coM. The jury rendered a decisión that ihe hoy carne to his death bv syncope or natural causes." I

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