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Dropped Dead In The Street

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Parent Issue
Day
17
Month
February
Year
1888
Copyright
Public Domain
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A sudden and sorrowful death occurred on the streets of Ann Arbor last Sa.turrtay evening. Little John J. Ureenman, fifteenyears oíd, had come up town to procure medicines for his mother and sister and was on his way back, about six o'clock, to his home in ;he fifth ward. He was seen by Mr. VeUerly, who was goinghome from hi work, to run across from Detroit Street to División street near the DeForest property. When a few feet from División street, he staggered and fell iuto some lilac bushes. As he did not get up, Mr. Vetterly went over to see what the matter was. The boy was dead. There was just a slight scratch on the side of his head but not enough to have aeen in any way the occasion of his death. He was picked up and taken to Martin's undertakinc rooms, where the remains were recogrrized. Coroner Clark at once impanneled a jury and investigated the cause of his sudden and mysterious death. The autopsy revealed the fact tliat the boy was not suffering from any disease. He was a perfect skeleton and death had evidently resulted from his exhausted condition, from want of nourishment and the cold. The coroner's jury rendered a verdict in accordance with these facts. The funeral services were held on Monda Y ■ The boy'a father formerly ran a matchfactory in the 3fth ward but this burned down. The bo was an attendant upon the temperance school, was of delicate appeaiance, and seems to have been well liked.

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Subjects
Ann Arbor Argus
Old News