Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-12-24
Mrs. stulI Discovered Something Was
Wrong When Both Tots Came Into
House From out.D Door Play, and
We're DeathIy Sick = Telephone
Wouldn't Work, and Poor Woman
Works With Dying Babes Alone
Passing Neighbors Discover Plight
and Doctors Save Little Girl.


day for a Green Mountain neighbour
hood and especially in one home,
where gifts had been bought and We're
all ready for the stockings of two lit
tie folks. For one, a little boy, there
will be no joy Of expectancy on Christ
mas morning. Instead he will sing
the Christmas carols with the angels
on high. in their rejoicing over the
birth Of the Christ child.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wendell stull, living
three miles northeast Of Green Noun
tain, possessed in their little family
circle Monday morning two children, a
boy, Chauncey, aged 4, and a baby
daughter. Ada, years old. Today they
have no son, and are not certain that
their daughter will be spared to them,
altho indications are that the little
one will survive the effects Nof ter
rible experience with morphine poison
ing.
Find "Prstty Candy"
Mrs. Stull was about her household
duties as usual Monday, and as it
was nice day the little folks were
bundled up and sent to the yard to
romp and play. At about 11:45 Mrs.
Stull called the children for dinner and
noticed them coming toward the house.
Both appeared to be i'll, and, as the
mother ran to them, with that ter
rible premonition that comes to moth
ers, that something dreadful had hap
pened, she gathered the babes to her
arms, to find both deathly sick. 1t
developed that the children had eaten
pills they believed to be candy.
'Phone Out Of Order.
Mrs. Stub hurried the children into
the house, and went to the telephone.
It was out Of order. The nearest neigh
Dor was some distance away, and in
the condition that the children were in
it was out Of the question to leave
them to secure help. Imagine the
poor mother, with two dying babes,
working all alone over one, then an
other, in an effort to save their lives.
1t was In this plight that neighbors,
passing the Stull home, learned the
condition Of affairs, ard lent assist
ance. Two physicians were secured as
soon as possible, but the boy was be-
yond aid of medical skill, and died at
2 O'clock Monday afternoon.
May Save Little Girl.
The life of the little girl may be
saved. She had evidently not taken
SO much Of the poison, and, while vio-
lently sick, and in commissions, was
not so far gone when the doctors ar
rived but that they were able to help
her. She is still very sick, but is con-
s;dcrably improved over her condition
Monday night. The doctors worked
until 2 o'clock this morning with her.
however, in the heroic effort to save
her,
Morphine Pills Responsible.
The children had been out in the yard,
believed, until today, that the little
ones had got hold of some horse medi-
cine kept in the barn. Today, how
ever, Mrs. Stull discovered that a box
of pills, used in treatment for dysen-
terry, was missing from the top shelf
Of a cupboard How the little boy got
the box is not known The pills con-
tanned small degree of morphine,
but take in large quantities was poison,
especially to babe.
Gloom Over Entire Neighborhood.
The sad affair has cast a gloom over
the entire neighborhood, and all the
people have visited the Stull home to
express their deep sympathy in the
family's affliction. Mr.. Stull was away
from home at the time Of the accident,
haop IN TndianOla. on business.
He reached home Monday night.
The arrangements for little Chaun-
cey's funeral have not yet been made