The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1877-11-22
A SLIGHT cORREcTT0N.


Mr.. EDITORi In your issue Of lastweek | no.
tce an item pertaining to the accidental death Of
Christian s. schEeiner, taken from the orTville
Crescent. The statement was probably made TO
the editor Of that paper by oneH II. Reed, OF that
place, and who was witness at the inquest II
is substantially correct, with the following st0h!
mistakes: HE had been 10 Canton for several
days" This man Reed under oath, sw0re that the
deceased was in orrvile on Monday ofthat week
and the following Tuesday he w'him there at
halfpast one p m. The register Of the jackson
house and the testimony of the proprietor, John
II. Stevenson, prove that the statement OF Reed Of
orrvile. is untrue, as he was at that house on
both Monday aud Tuesday that he took dinner
there on tuesday at the usual hour, Further, the
deceased was seen and talked TO in Canton on the
Sunday before, by Thomas Patton, 5r., and others,
End 1T is supposed that he fell between the cars
at the bridge over the Tuscarawas river, west OF
the city where his body was found" This state
ment is also slightly wrong, His body was found
on the bridge over Erie street. close to the railroad
depot In MassillOn, about half mile east OF the
river bridge. Sd. ut was taken to the freight
house and was not recognized until o'clock p
M, when H, H. Reed OF this place arrived on the
scene and fully Identified the dead man." Reeds
statement TO that effect are also untrue in every
particular, as the body was first Identified by Mr
Wolf formerly of Canton, butnow connected with
the Beaver Falls Pa, stove Co.. at about 10 o'clock
a. IN. on Tuesday Immediately afterwards by K.
II. Anderson and at l2:l4 p, In. by John ii, SteV-
ensOn, both OF this county. 4th The body Of
SCnreiner had received no attention up TO last
night by the Massillon authorities and there is no
telling if they would have done anything 10 put
1t In decent appearing condition had 1t not been
for Mr.. Reed looking after the matter" This
statement is a fragrant falsehood. The "Massilon
authorities' had nothing TO do with the body un
Til after the inquest Mr.. Reed stated to me that
the deceased had some $40 or $50 due him from
the firm al 0rrvile and that he wished to see him
buried respectfully, and not by the township, l
then asked Reed If he would take charge uf the
corpse, This he positively declined to do, and
told me that he deceased) had brOther-in.law in
or north OF Canton, to whom Immediately tele-
graphed after the inquest Not getting an answer
Tor some time went to the township trustees as l
had told Reed woald have to do to have the
body cared Tor, | saw one of the trustees ana af
ter explaining the matter, had the undertaken
put the body in ice al about o'clock p. m, AT
about o'clock p. M, received an answer from
hSOSd1Suo bLObuCl-lu-ldW W blllh SlSCt' hSCp
body. l will send coffin and hearse to morrow"
9TH "Mr. Reed 4 went down
again this morning to have the body taken to
Canton, the home &C." Another mistake The
otiiciOus Reed had nothing to do with it and did
not assist in having the corpse taken away at all
The hearse coffin and undertaken, under inslruc-
tions OF Mr.. Morrow, deCeaseds brother-in-law,
came over Friday morning at about O'clock.
Reed rode over to Canton on the $3.50 a. m, train
remained in Canton until the 1877 p. m. train
west, stopped off at Massillon, and never went
near the funeral at ALL l merely make this cor
reCtion to show that Iattended to my duties ac-
cordtng to law and to show up this man Reed as a
party that either had some scheme Of making
himself popular or making little extra change
would. also recommend to the editor of the Ores
cent that hereafter in publishing an item of this
kind that he first endeavor to get at the facts
from some reliable and authentic So1lrC and then
the public and parties interested will not have the
trouble of making corrections of slight mistakes.
.,. HENRY ALTERRUsE, Coroner,