The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-01-26
And Maude Schrand Was
Burned to Death.
Her Companion Was Arrested and
Fined for Being Drunk and
Disorderly.
LITTLE Roy ONLY WITNESS

old, died at LAS O'Clock this morn
Ing from horrible burns at her home
1920 North Tenth street. JEFF Reeves,
ner companion, when the accident,
which sssulted in her death occur
Ired, was arrested. but not held on
any charge in connection with her
death. He was fined 81 for being
drunk and disorderly.
The two were scuffling in the
room, according to the best accounts,
and the woman's kimono, was whisk-
ed into the flames of an open crate.
The fire ran up her back and she
screamed for help. Reeves, in his
condition, was of little assistance,
and finally fed from the house leav-
ing the woman to her fate.
The only eye witness to the horri-
/ Bile scene is the six-year-old son Of
Mrs. schrand, Leon Schrand, who
witnessed the affair from the door
way leading from the back to the
front room. Reeves was captured
before dark. He was locked up on
charge of being drunk and disor-
derby.
The dead woman was the wife
of Edward Schrand. of Metropolis
lIn., but separated from him some
time ago, taking her three sons,
Frank, 8 years old; Leon, 6 years
old, and Harold, years old, in GUS
Itody. She lived in three-room
house at 1920 North Tenth street,
her sister, Mrs. Emma Force, lived
with her.
Mrs. Force was not at home yes
Iterday afternoon and the children, ex-
lcept little Leon who was playing in
the second room, directly back of the
mothers bedroom where she and
Reeves were talking, we're also alb
sent. The loud talking excited little
Icons attention, and making for the
door he entered the room just In time
70 see the end. Between sobs the
little fellow told his story to a re-
porter as his mother lay in the adj
Joining room suffering untold agon-
les. far beyond the aid of physicians
and their medicines.
Fannie Dickerson on Scene.
Fannie Dickerson, a 15-year-old
colored girl, was the first in the room
after Reeves left. She was attracted
by the frantic Leon. The girl had
also noticed the hatless Reeves run
llng in uncertain strides towards the
saloon.
81 saw a big man with black hair
and mustache running from Mrs.
schrands house." the Dickerson girl
Explained. Next came little Leon,
and noticing the door of Mrs
Schrand's house ajar and smoke is
suing from it, naturally thought 1t
was aflre. l was carrying milk, but
setting the pail on the ground !
made for the house.
81 found Mrs. Schrand sitting on
the edge OF the bed with no clothes
On her lower limbs. On her breast
and arms was the remnants of an
under shirt burning to the skin. l
grabbed 1t and with one wrench tore
It from her. Back she fell, and roll
ng on the bed tried to secure relief.
she recognized me and begged me,
begged any one, to do something for
her"
The appearance of the bed indi-
Gates that after the exit of Reeves
md little Leon, the mother threw her.
self on 1t and tried to smother the
danes.
Captain Frank Harlan received an
emergency call at the city hall. and
City Physician Harry Williamson was
in the building. The patrol wagon
was dispatched to the scene with DR..
williamson and reporters.
1t was a sickening scene presented
when the doctor arrived. Drs. Johns
ton Bass and Horace t. Rivers mad
preceded the patrol, but had no
suitable dressings with them, not un-
lderstanding the nature of the case
when they started.
The nauseating odor OF burning
flesh. mingled with burning rags was
too much for some, who turned and
left the house Linseed oil and other
soothing lotions We're spread on the
woman. and morphine injected to put
her to sleep. She was hard to in
lfuence with the drug, and did not
lapse into Inconsistencies until an
hour after it was administered. The
flesh was burned OF her body in