The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-10-08
prietor objected to such dodgers and

prietor objected to such dodgers and
put them out
Where the jewellers went after that
has not been ascertained by the police
At 7:30 o'clock in the orning the divers
sins found him At Fifteenth and Arap-
ahoe streets he lay in the gutter and
was transferred to the city Jail by Ser
geant futile and Officer Kellogg, under
charge of criminal assault.
One hour later the boy, Frank Fern,
arrived at the Jail, but he did not join
his entertainer in the bull-pen. Instead
he was turned over to Police Surgeon
Jarecki. Tuttle and Kellogg found Fern
in front of 1924 L2rimer street in a deep
stupor, with his whole body redolent of
stale liquor. On examination DR.. Jar
ecki found him to be in a condition of
profound coma, with symptoms Of al
coholic poisoning plainly evident. He
had in his possession only IS cents of
the 81 Lewis gave him at noon of the
previous day, the remainder having
gone for whisky.
When the body was laid on the sur
geon's operating table life was almost
extinct in it. DR.. Jarecki tried hypo-
dermic injections of apomorphia,
strychnine sulphurate, glycerine and
atropine sulphate, but none Of these
remedies revived his whisky-poisoned
patient. After working over him for
forty-five minutes the surgeon finally
conveyed the dying boy to the county
hospital, where his drowned out life
spark fiickered its last at 1875 o'clock
a. m.
The body was taken to the morgue
and will be subjected to an autopsy and
formal inquest.
Frank Fern had not been a model boy
during his short life, owing 10 his as
sociations with evil companions, and
yesterdays affair was not his first
dealing with officers Of the law. On
March 10, 1894, he and three other lads
were arrested for robbing a grocery
store and bound over to the district
court for trial. When the cases were
called, however, a nolle contendere was
entered by the district attorney, owing
TO the youth of the prisoners, and they
all got off with a reprimand.
The boys mother and sister say he
had been quite steady lately and ex-
| pected to go TO work at the state capi-
| tol on Friday. After he left home they
heard no more of him until Undertaken
Rogers sent them notification that his
dead body was in the morgue- Mrs.
Fern describes Frank as delicate lad
who had all his life been subject to at
lacks Of chill. Usually when one OF
| those fits seized him his relatives un-
dressed him and used massage treat
ment to bring him to his normal condi-
| ton. The dead lads father is away
from home, at work in Golden.
Yesterday afternoon Chief Gouldine
sent Detectives Watrous, De Lue
Gardner, Chambers and Finch out to
| hunt for saloons where liquor was fur
nished to Frank Fern. AS result j
K. Dodge, proprietor of a place at 1515
1 I ,arir0lr street and James ESSiD ger
who runs the Board of Trade saloon
on Sixteenth street, between LarimeI
and Market, were arrested for selling
| liquor to a minor.
Sober as he could be Charles Lewis
| last evening laughed at his awful forty.
! eight hours work, the death of Franz
Fern included, as though 1t were a good
| joke, and described his adventures in
| the most revolving language.