The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1911-01-19
JUDGE JOHN H. SULLENS
DEAD.

Pioneer Citizen of Bates County Sue
combs to Pneumonia at His Home
Near Foster.
Judge John H. Sullens, aged s.
years and 3 months, departed this
life at his home near Foster Monday
morning, January 16, at 9 o'clock,
after an illness of pneumonia.
John H. Sullens was born in Wayne
county, Kentucky, October 10, 1928.
A short time after his birth, his par
ents moved to Missouri, and located
in Miller county where he was reared
to young manhood. was united
in marriage to Miss Hannah Cowan,
a Kentucky girl, at the age of 10 years.
In 1856 he established a general mer-
chandise business in Miller county and
remained at the head of this institu-
ton until it's destruction by fire,
when he moved to Windsor, Canada.
In 1865 Mr.. Sullens returned to Mis-
souri,, and located in Bates county,
purchasing the farm upon which he
resided at the time of his death.
In the spring of 1873 he was elected
Presiding Judge Of the County Court
of Bates county, and successfully
dealt with some of the most important
financial issues in the history of Bates
county. Being urged to make the
race for the legislature, Judge Sullens
resigned in the fall of 1875 and was
elected representative, and served
with distinction in the Twenty-ninth
General Assembly.
In 1886 Mrs. Sullens died, and two
years later, on March %, 1883, Judge
Sullens was united in marriage to
Miss Lou M. Bell who survives him.
Judge Sullens has always been
among the most prominent citizens of
this county, and has filled, with the
greatest ability and honor to himself,
many positions of honor and trust.
During his life time Judge Sullens
was connected with many business
interests, and a number of four strong
est business institutions owe in a
large degree their present success to
the guiding hand and influence of
Judge Sullens during their infancy.
Judge Sullens was for years stock
holder and director in the Missouri
State Bank of this city and at one
time served as President of that
institution. Judge Sullens was at one
time stockholder in The Times, and
was instrumental in the founding of
the Farmers Bank of Walnut at Fos-
ter, of which institution he was, at
the time of his death, director
Funeral services were held at the
Salem chuach Wednesday morning at
10 o'clock, and interment was made
in the Foster cemetery. Z
Not Guilty, Says Mrs. Melber
Albany, N. Y, Jan. l6.-Mrs.
Edith Melber pleaded not guilty to-
day to the charge of murder in the
first degree before Judge Cochrane
in the supreme covrt, after being in
dicted by the grand jury for killing |
her 5-year-old son, George Melber,
by giving him carbolic acid to drink.
The coroner's decision on the in
quest is that death was due to carbolic
acid.
According to the specialist in men,
al diseases, who examined Mrs. Mel
Der yesterday, she is perfectly rat 1
Onal.
On this report the decision of the
corners jury and the confession by p
he woman to the Rochester police,
he District Attorney will base his
ase.
Inasmuch as she confessed, the 81
authorities would not allow her to see y
he body before it was buried to-day y
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She has expressed desire to see u
Toward Kirk, a young Schenectady !"
raftsman, but the police will not al =,
Nv him to visit her. II
Old Resident Dead, n
Mrs. Philena Jennings, aged SO OF
ears, departed this life at the home 10