Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-11-14
coRoNER's JURY FINDS THAT
DEATH OF H. L. HOLT WAS
FROM NATURAL CAUSES
Well Known Shoemaker Found Dead
In Barn on South Side - Right Ven
triele Of Heart Ruptured = Other
South Side News.
From Mondays Daily,


Herman l.. Holt, we'll known shoe
maker OF the South Side, was found
dead IN barn at the rear of his shop,
OIL Church street, Sunday morning.
Rumors that a considerable sum Of
money was missing from his person,
discoloration of the skin about the
throat and other circumstances, led
many to suspect that murder had been
committed. but after careful investiga-
ton the coroner's jury decided that
death resulted from natural causes.
According to the testimony at the
coroner's inquest last evening Mr.. Holt
was accompanied from the saloon next
door to his shoe shop by three of his
friends about 10 o'clock Saturday night
and placed in the barn. The body was
found about o'clock Sunday morn
ing by Officer Frank LaRue. Mr.. Holt
was lying on his back on the floor with
his head against the side wall and
doubled forward on his chest
Heart Was Ruptured.
f. A post mortem examination over the
remains of Mr.. Holt was conducted by
Coroner F. w. Mills and DR.. A. o. viii
lians Sunday afternoon. 1t was found
that there was a rupture of the right
ventricle of the heart. DR.. Williams
said at the inquest that there was also
discoloration of the skin at the
throat, but no Commissions of the deeper
tissues SO that Mr.. Holt could not have
been choked to death and that the
heart was affected with fatty degenera-
ton.
Although Mr.. Holt was known to
have carried considerable sums of
money at various times, the evidence
was to the effect that he sent money
to relatives in Kirksville, Mo-, and that
for the past few months his finances
had been low. In his pockets were
found three purses, two empty and one
containing forty cents. A thorough
search was made of the shoe shop, but
no money or valuables were found.
Returned for Key.
James R. scully, who resides at 21s
North Moore street, said that he and
Mr.. Young, a horse trader, took Holt
from the saloon about 10 o'clock to the
shoe shop Mr.. Young and Mr.. Cald
we'll then placed Holt in the barn
Scully said that he went to get the
key to the shoe shop and thought that
Holt was breathing at that time, but
he made no move when the key was
taken from his pocket. Mr.. Scully said
he then unlocked the door to the shoI
and extinguished the light.
Officer Frank LaRue said that he saw
Holt in the alley next to the shop
about 9:40 o'clock and told him to &c
home and that Holt said all right. Mr.
Scully and Young told him that they
had put Holt In the barn. Officer LaRue
said his attention was attracted In the
morning by seeing the door of the
barn open and that he went to investi
gate and found Mr. Holt dead.
The verdict was that death resulted
from natural causes, a rupture Of the
right ventricle of the heart
Was a Canadian.
H. L. Holt was native Of Canada
but had resided in Ottumwa for many
years. He conducted shoe shop or
Church street for several years ant
was known to nearly every resident o
South Ottumwa He is survived by {
wife and four daughters, who reside a
Kirksville, Mo-, two brothers, r. M
Holt of Centerville, formerly of OF
tumwa, and Henry Holt of Ute. Tht
arrangements for the funeral have no
been completed.
ReInscot- Gallagher Wedding.
At the st. Patrick's Catholic church
this morning occurred the marriage
of Miss Mary Gallagher of Ottumws
to Bernard Reinscot, of Brazil, Iowa
The bridesmaid was Miss Mary Rob
ertson and Alexander Robertson actet
as best man. Mr.. and Mrs. ReinscO
| will make their home in Brazil.
Other South Side News.
Born Sunday afternoon, to Mr.. an,
| Mrs Frank Cornell, 303 North Adell
street, a daughter.
Frank Warner, of Bloomfield, visit
ed over Sunday at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Isaac Swinney, on Pine
street.
Miss Hattie Thompson of Abba, lef
this morning on Burlington No. TO
her home after visit at the home 0
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. ]. H.Thomp
son. 538 South Sheridan avenue.
East Pennsylvania avenue, left thi
morning on the Wabash for her home
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