St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-11-05
rArAL nEsuLr or A srREE.
The HOrribIe Death of Miss Gabrielle
GreeIey'sgs odchfld.


GreeIey'sg 5odchftd-
''why, Miss Greeley, what are you doing
in tiis dirty hoser' said Coroner Hyatt yes
erday morning as lac entered the low, foul
odored shanty OF Daniel See in the woods on
the borders OF the Village OF Chappaqua.
Miss Gabrielle Greeley, the only survivir z
daughter OF the late Horace Greeley, was
bending over the corpse Of the small boy.
whose strange death the Coroner had come
70 inquire about"
'sDo not think It strange that am here"
said Miss Greeley with sad smile as she
raised her head from the body. This little
boy is my especial charge- ! am his god
mother, and his Little sister, Emma, there.
whom you see weeping Is devout attic nd
ant at my Sunday school in the Episcopal
Church"
The body lay in a rude pine shOe-box,
about four feet long aud eighteen inches
wide. Il was the only easket that the shift
less parents could procure. The sunken
cyes, the bruised aud discolored forehead
and the look OF agony on the face told tale
OF sqa-ior seldom, il eyeI, seen in Chris
tan community.
At Mss G7eel,.y's side on the filthy and
carpei.rss door was great bunch % wild
flowers aud 4 pail Of cracked ice. Tae
Young laJy was packing the ice around the
little Dody and arranging the Wild flowers
around TIM cd..c eli the snOe-bux In 81 n an
OrGoriy and tasty manner, that when sac had
com seted Der srlf-apDOint-d tasS the spot
where the body lay looked like bower of
many cOlored lowers. The little body which
claimed her atIcutiuu Was hat az Frederick
SEE. tnc four-year-old san Of David and
Family See, who occupied the SANITY with
their four cnildrra.
Il am told SAIL the Coroner, addressing
Miss Grcrley, ''that t.is c.il1 died lrum
Gnuking alruac. Of which his parents had
been drinking. Il that truef'
Il am sorry Ia say tiat believe tie report
Is trur.'' rrpi.sL Miss tirscisy.
Tae Coroner ;hen took charge ~ the body
snA summoned = jury. Tie testimony slUw-
ing ta-t toe caild nad actually drank a gum
It's II aicSao.. fncm Tao elects q. whiea IL
ua,. died. The father could not &c found,
but tie mother, waO was just recovering
from t1e p, z sets II a pro;rIctcd sD-er, tcst!-
I i-d thst Ger husband i a shoemaker and
can make a EuOI living wien be is OF !
mind 10 work. GA saturday night she sliI
l her husband and hvrsei; went down I, Waltz,
/ Plaias 10 70: some kerosene. but instead
/ they had Lall gallon % alcohol put into
/ their cau. When they arrived al Chaypaqua
I they wsrc bo.h iatOxicaiel ]. 'iIty lad lei,
/ their .onr chi.srcn Il hoEie alone, the eldest
/ being IL Years, aud tie Youngest . On
! SUNDAY the parents continued their Alcoholic
spree and got very drums. Along in the
afternoon the Bitle ten-yeaE-old g'Tl testi-
fed
II took the can o, alcohol and LID II up
stairs in the corner Of INV little bed. i hid
Ia keep papa and mam:Ra from drinkin
any mere. didn't want mamma and pap
T. get so drunk as they DO sometimes. They
wOuldn' stop drinking when | begged them
to. and SO hid TIE can. Freddy found the
can aud drank lot of the alcohol. saw
him come down stairs. lie staggered and
fell into nay lap aud then / knew he had
been drinking: ] smelled his breath and
found cut. lie couldn't speak. ! pulled
him on my lap, and pretty soon he got down
and lay on the floor and went 10 sleep. He
never woke up any more. Mamma and
put him 10 bed after II got dark. aud lac slept
all day Monday and wouldn't wake M. In
the afternoon hc was crazy. He butied his
head against the wall and had fits. He died
this morning"
During the testimony of this child, who
was remarkably bright and intelligent, the
jurors looked on her with blank sstOnish-
ment, and tears were seen 10 start in the eyes
Of some OF them.
DIR. II. +. Patch, who was summoned just
before the child's death, said the child was
then in the last stages Of alcoholic poison
ing aud was past recovery.
The jury, alter brief absence, rendered a
verdict OF censure for criminal carelessness
in allowing the child To get the alcohol.
Constable Lawrence has a warrent for Sees
arrest Mrs. See has been notified that she
can no longer have the custody of her child
rem. To-day she will leave Chappaqua and
60 to her relatives. 'Mlss Greeley will take
charge of the remaining three children and
send them TO school.
Last evening Miss Greeley sent an under
taken to remove the body Of the dead boy to
the old Greeley farmhouse, where the lat,
Horace Greeley lived so many years. To-
day the funeral will take place from Miss
Greeley's house