The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-08-05

With the hot sun pouring down
upon her frail and half clad form,
her face upturned and the eyellds
closed as if in death, Miss n. A.
Black, the Sawyer sanatorium pa
ticnt who wandered away last Mon
day evening was found in half
starved condition on the farm OF
Adam Ncidhart, four miles south OF
The city at 10 O'Clock Sunday morn
my. A searching party composed
If Jesse Walters,Daniel Stayner and
SON Thomas Leslie. located the wo-
nan.
When found, Miss Black was 50
weak that she could only talk in u
Whisper. She seemed to have passed
he delirious stage and when picked
10, offered no resistance and only re-
pcatedly called to her rcscuers for
water. She was completely helpless
nd the physicians think that had
he laid in the hot sun in the posi-
ion which she was found another
our, life would have been extinct.
Immediately upon finding the wo-
1an the searching party hastily
laced her in buggy which they
,ad near and drove the horse on
run to the city. The condition Of
he woman was so horrible that the
escuers were afraid that death
would occur before they could reach
he sanatorium. The woman pleaded
o earnestly for water that the parry
oppcd at farm house and gave
er a drink of several swallows.
Nobody knew Of the find until the
earching party arrived with the
yoman in the city. She was taken
the sanatorium where she was
Immediately given medical attention.
When she had partially revived she
'hispcrcd a few words that dis
loscd some details of the horrible
Incident. She declared that she
'anted TO get away from everybody
hen She left the Senatolium Mon
ay evening. When it began to get
ark Miss Black says that she start
d to return home when she became
fraid and hid in the barn near
,hich she was found.
Miss Black is supposed to have
ntered the barn early Tuesday
lorning and hid under the hay be-
cath beam on the south side
{ the hay NOW. About 10 O'Clock
tuesday, Neidhart, assisted by
rank Schrote began filling the
arm with new mown hay and by
Wednesday evening the structure
which was Is by 30 feet in size
vas crammed full TO the raRters
'he fact that Miss Black was ",
ng beneath a beam, saved her from
,elng crushed and smothered wher
had began to settle.
How Miss Black ever bnrroughei
Ter way out Of her nest is mys
cry. II is supposed, however
hat she became so hungry ana
hirsty that she grew desperate ant
W exerting all her energy managed
to worm her way through the tightly
packed hay, II is thought that so near,
j. exhausted was she from diggini
ed the grounl she fell totally ex,
through the hay that when she reach
hausted and il was in this condition
that he searching party found her.
Sheriff Drown and posse o.
searchers who left the city early Sun
day morning visited the barn aftel
the woman was found The part,
entered the barn and crawling dowr
the sides of the NOV beneath thu
lower part of the rafteTs they foun(
the nest in which the demented wo
man had been lying for several days
It was evident that she had beer
chewing the juice from the hay al
short chewed straws lay thickly
scattered about. The hay was beater
down and 1t looked as though sh'
had undergone terrible agony ant
had tossed about until the straw'
was threshed. A side comb, a hail
rat and buttons from her dress wer'
found scattered in tho hay near Tho
lnost.
Walters, Stayner and Leslie hat