The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1916-04-26
TOUCHING DEATH
OF LITTLE NURSE
Spurned BY a Faithless
Lover.
TOOK POISON TO EMO II ALL
Sorrowing Father Sat By Her
Bedside As Life Slowly
Ebbed Away.
A STRONG LESSON FOR GIRLS

Chicago, ILL.,, April 20.-The soul
of Carolyn Kister took it's fight to-
day into the great unknown.
The little Ohio nurse. the unso7
phisticated girl from the country,
who took poison after. she declared,
she had been made a victim of mans
perfidy--who chose to die rather
than bear the disgrace she felt must
be hers for life-Quietly breathed
her last in Washington Park Hospit-
al after a heroic fight,
The scene at the deatbbed was
one that those who We're there will
never forget. 1t was the last grip
ping chapter in the sad life story of
Carolyn Kister. 1t was pathetic, in
tense, heartrending.
For hours before the grim reaper
stole silently into the little hospital
room, through the windows of which
the spring sun was shining cheerily
and brightly and wherein the white
faced girl was lying so still on her
white coun'terpaned bed. it was ap-
parent to all that the end was near.
Carolyn Kister had sunk into a state
of coma. Her eyes were closed. her
hands still and there was just a per-
ceptible movement of the heart. Az
ter nine days poison had done it's
unrH ar,I 1s,oth ua,
Half an hour before the girl died
the door opened and little figure
of a man, his form bent from much
hard labor, his hands gnarled and
knotted, his Sunday suit" hanging
loosely. slid into the room and took
seat by the bed.
The man was Jacob Franklin Kis-
ter, Carolyn Kisteis father, who
had come from his farm near Ar
lington. Ohio, where his girl had
been a laughing, gay and happy
child, to be present at the end.
The dying girl barely recognized
her father. She lifted her eyes and
Just the shadow oT a smile showed
on the drawn lips.
Jacob Franklin Kister spoke no
word. He sat ard stared dumbly
into the face of the daughter he low
ed. His frame shUok at times as he
tried to choke back the sobs that
arose in his throat.
Before him in a vase was a great
bunch of white tulips and roses of
white shedding their sweet fra
GRANGE through the room. The flow
ers had come to the hospital during
the morning. They had been sent
anonymously. But there was the
following on a card attached to the
white blooms:
See how the loving God brings
From the blackness Hof earth these
Flowers of snow and fragrance,
And doubt not that He will bring
From the worlds darkness the
Souls of His children, white and
Beautiful, into His light and love.
That was all. Bpt Carolyn Kis-
ter never heard of tie message of
hope and cheer. She was too near
the brink before the nUwers arrived.
When the eyes of the little nurse
had been closed in their last long
sleep, the pent-up emotions of the
father broke their hold. The ten
sion of days of waiting and appre-
hension had been shattered. He
wept unrestrainedly and as If his
heart would break. His grief was
pitiful to witness.
The inquest is set for tomorrow.
At that time IT is expected that the
man blamed for the girls death will
be present. He is out on $1,000
bail. Detectives were sent to look
for him when Miss Kister's death
was reDUrted