The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1907-05-03
SIDE LIGHTS
ON MICHIGAN
DEATH OF MISS PRESLEY WAS
UNEXPECTED AND SHOCKS
LEGISLATURE.
WAS A VALUED WORKER
Said To Have Died In Detroit Hospl-
tai After An Operation, But is Not
Located.
Mo Trace Discovered.

III Was GtDOIltu lIOil DSNiOiN fhoH-
day Miss Edith Presley, senate proof
reader, died Sunday of peritonitis or
appendicitis. The news was shock
TO her friends in Lansing, many or
whom had not heard of her illness.
She left Lansing early last week, ex-
pecting to be back in few days. Miss
Presley, through several years con.
nection with the state department and
three sessions work in house and
senate, was a valued and efficient
worker, She was an expert stenHg-
rapher and had large executive and
business ability. She was very popu-
lar. Her parents and one brother sur
vive. Miss Presley and her brother
Frank boarded at the home or Mrs.
Scott. who keeps a we'll known board
ing house. Mrs. Scott says that on
Sunday morning Frank Presley receiv-
ed a message from Detroit that his
sister was dying. and he took the first
train for that city. Late in the after
noon Mrs. Scott received a telephone
message from Presley, saying that
Edith had died about noon, several
hours before he arrived in Detroit,
and that ne would ship the body to
Lansing as soon as possible. Mr..
Scott was asked to secure burial
lot, and a young man was sent 10
the Office of the cemetery and arrang-
ed for a burial plot in the name of
Frank Presley.
Ebert V. Chilson, secretary of the
senate, and Miss Presley's immediate
superior, says that before Miss Pres
ley left Lansing she told him that
She was going east on business and
that she had arranged for her brother
Frank TO look after her affairs until
her return. She told him nothing
about going TO hospital, nor did she
say that she was going TO Detroit.
Miss Lottie Brown, secretary to
| Highway Commissioner Earle, and
the particular chum of Miss Presley,
SAYS that the latter told her she was
going to Detroit to undergo an opera
| ton for appendicitis. Miss Brown
SAYS that Miss Presley recently made
her will, but no particular importance
was attached to the fact, as she had
done the same thing before, and Miss
Brown attributed it to her usual meth
odical business ways with her own af-
fairs as we'll as in her daily work.
Another girl friend of Miss Presley's
says that Miss Presley had recently
intimated to her that she feared that
she might have TO undergo an opera
ton, but did not appear to feel that
! the necessity was urgent.
About the capitol Miss Presley is
given the highest praise, both for her
| ability, her work and her personal
worth All who knew her express
| themselves as to the regard in which
she was held Her personal affairs
are in perfect condition. her work
being brought up to the close of the
session on the day before she depart
ed.
The death OF Miss Presly is mys
terry so far as Detroit is concerned.
If the death of the girl occurred in
Detroit hospital it must be one OF
the private sanitariums which have
no telephone.
No hospital or sanitarium OF any
consequence was overlooked in in
auiries made Monday. No such pa
tient had been received in any oil
them. No death of woman from
such an ailment has been reported
to the health board. No burial per
NIT nor permit to remove a corpse
has been applied for in the board o.
health Offices.
No undertaken who has been in thu
business any considerable time ha:
the body.
Fred Presley. a brother. registered
at the Griswold house. late Sunday
night and left early Monday morning