The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-01

OF the Horse Forty m1nules.
Send the coroner and an officer i'm
uneddately to vacant lot near the cor
ner of Enporia avenue and Nine
teenth street. There is a dead boy
there
The above was a telephone message
that came into the sheriff's office yes
terday a few minutes after 1 O'Clock.
Deputy Sheriff Charley Horner was
sent to the coroner's office Immediately
and in few minutes the two men were
driving in the direction indicated in the
message.
On the vacant lot near the corner of
Emporia and Nineteenth street they
found the body Of Otto w Malmwick,
step-son Of W. H. Miller Of 1852 Wichita
street lying on the ground while near
was the PROSTATE form Of an emanciat-
ed horse. A young man named Johnson
was there and stated to the coroner that
he had found the boy lying under the
horse, which was apparently unable to
rise, and that the animals wethers
were lying across the boys stomach,
In a manner which would effectually
stop his breath.
The young man had pulled the horse
off of the boy, who he found to be dead
and at once telephoned for the officers
and sent a message for the boys step
father at the packing house, who
was waiting for the arrival of his son
with his dinner.
The officers arrived on the ground
just previous to Mr.. Miller, who was
greatly distressed over the accident
The bOdy was still warm and limp and
was Immediately conveyed TO the fam
lily residence at 1852 North Water street
and a messenger sent for DR.. Fordyce,
who attempted TO resusitate it, but all
efforts proved fruitless.
Mr. Miller and his family had lately
arrived in the city from Hutchinson,
where he had been engaged in the pack
ing houses of that place, and had found
work with the packing plant 1t
was the boys duty to bring the dinner
to his father, when not attending
school, and he was on this mission
when the accident occurred.
The day previous be had been given
the horse by some parties who did not
either wish to kill the animal of winter
Ii, and he was riding the animal when
from some cause il fell catching the
boy beneath il. The animal had not
strength tc rise and from the best ac-
counts that can be ascertained remain
ed lying across the boys stomach fully
forty minutes before he was found.
At 1910 the boy and the horse passed
the blacksmith shop on the corner Of
Eighteenth and Lawrence avenue, and
at the rate he was travelling must have
arrived at the point where the accident
occurred at about 1920. II was few
minutes past ! o'clock when the dead
boy was found by young Johnson.
There did not appear to have been
any struggling with either the horse or
the boy, and ii is the general opinion
that the boy was knocked unconscious
by the fall.
The mother was Frustrated with grief
over the sad accident. and Ir. Miller
declared that no Aarther could think
more of the child than he did. He spoke
Of the boy as one who always delighted
to do something for somebody else. and
says that Otto could not bear to see the
Ol1 horse turned out TO die, by starva-
ton after it had rendered years of
service to its master, and he asked per-
mission to get it and feed 1t. He said
the boy was the same with a dog or
anything else, and that morning had
laughed how he would ride his charger
TO the packing houses conveying his
fathers dinner.
At the time the reporter was at the
family residence. which is well furnish
ed and shows Air. Miller and his family
to be in comfortable circumstances, no
arrangements had been made for the
funeral services, and it had not been de-
rided whether the burial would take
place here or the remains laid TO rest
beside his father.
Kind neighbors and friends were on
hand 10 render all the assistance in
their power to the distressed family.