Bisbee daily review., 1908-03-29
.COCHISE COUNTY
\ HORRIBLE DEATH
 FOR DOUGLAS WOMAN
Mrs, w, R, Bennett Fatally Burned and Dies Few
 Hours Afterward,

DOUGLAS, March 2S-(Special)-' ' Mrs. w. R. Bennett. wife of one of the men in the shoe department of the Copper Queen store, in some way set fire to her clothes at her nome, 15zs c avenue, yesterday morning and died few hours afterward from the of fleets of her injuries.
 Mrs. Bennett has been an invalid for great many years and Mir. Ben nett came to Douglas about a year ago in hopes that the climate would benefit her. Her suffering for so long worked upon her mind to such an ex- tent that about two months ago she became unbalanced mentally. and since that time has been closely watch ed bq Der eighteen.year-old daughter, Jennie. and little twelve-year-old son, Willis, at all times. Yesterday morn ing the daughter and son were engag- cd at some work fin the back yard about ii o'clock whom they were startled by hearing the screams of their mother. and they rushed into the house. They found tho mother in the front room near the door, her clothes in flames, and she was trying to brusn them of with her hands and arms. She was still standing, but was suffering terrible agony. for her clothes were a mass of flames. The daughter quickly set to work smotheriug out the fire, and neighbors, attracted by the smoke and screams of pain, came to her as- sistance. By the time the fire was ex- ! Atraa had burned about the body. Medical aid was summoned, but the agony of the pain proved more than she could stand and death came to her relief about 2:30 in the afternoon.
 1 Beside the two children living at home, there are two other sons. One is at Memphis, Tenn, and the other. Roy, is at Amarillo, Texas. They were telegraphed of the sad accident and Roy may be able to arrive in time for the funeral. The funeral services will be held at the home on c avenue this afternoon at 3:30, conducted by Rev. B. H. Gessell. Undertaken Wash ington nas charged of the interment. l The pool tournament at the Y. M ] c. A. was continued last night and five games were played and one post poned. Once more the scratch men won their games, Demarest defeating
 O'Donovan, and Kempt getting his
 game with Reed. One game was postponed to be played of at later date, at the convenience of the play
 CTS. ..-
 The games resulted as follows:
 Demarest Q00) beat O'Donovan (90) l-77; Kemp (100) beat Reed (75)- AT; Crago (S0) beat Mohr (90)-7S; Orrison (S0) beat Martin (S5)-70; Lincoln (S0) beat Gray (65)-4S, and
 the match between Reed and Gray
 was postponed.
 The matches scheduled for tonight
 are Kemp vs. O'Donoyan, Demarest vs. Reed, Martin vs. Gray, Reed vs
 Andrews, O'Donovan vs. Gray, Martin
 vs. Crago.
 The withdrawal of Mccarthy YVES ? announced last night as a change in
 the shifts at the smelter makes it i'm
 possible for him to fulfill the engage ments of the schedule. McNulty took
 his place as no games had yet been 3 played by Mccarthy.
 ? T. A. Kemp did some expert play !, ing at the third series of contests ir - the pool tournament at the Y. NJ. c. A
 last evening, making a run of fifteen 1 balls in one game. Only four games g were played and the last one, between 9 !Crago and Martin, was the closest oi t the evening. The result of the games