The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1918-06-15
Affidavit Says Undertaken Had Body at His Parors, One
Half Mile From Hospital Before She Had Been Gone 30
Minutes--Husband Not Dead When She Lef---Cerk and
Bookkeeper, Romanst-- AtendantsA Underakers

found its immediate passage into the
undertaking parlors of Roman
Catholic coroner and Knights of
Columbus reporter printed an incon-
spicuous account of her death which
merely stated she had died in local
hospital and that her demise was the
result of an overdose of medicine fire.
quently used in the case of patients
recovering from appendicitis. The
hospital was st. Johns and the
nurses were Roman Catholic sisters.
The husband of the woman may have
been Roman Catholic for he never
sued the hospital even after the facts
were printed in fearless Springfield
daily. The Knights of Columbus re-
porter's story was exposed by that
paper and a rival of the papal I'M
dertaker was the man who helped a
reporter to get at the facts. Need
less to say both that undertaken and
the newspaper have since had to quit
business.
The coroner, however, wasn't the
choice of the people for any Office
after that, but Governor Gardner
gave him a job and he now serves
the state Of Missouri in the game de-
partment. But to get to the point.
This woman may have been poisoned,
probably was, through a grievous
error, but why should the papal un-
dertaker and the papal reporter con-
spire to hide the mistake of a papal
hospital and papal nurses? You see
where the conspiracy came in don't
you?
But to return to the Ithaca case.
Of course it is right and commend
able for the~ proper hospital attend
ant to care for the decedent's effects.
But note the jesuitry! Masked by
that benefcient principle, the Jesuit
can readily ascertain that decedent
has sufficient money to make it profit
able to bury him, and then telephone
to Catholic undertaken.
1t is not claimed here that a Ro-
man Catholic telephoned directly to
Mr.. Shea. The willy Jesuit is too
shrewd for that. But four-fashing
Protestant (?) (who sells booze in
this University City which recently
voted dry by majority of 1500) and
friend and crony of Mr.. Shea's was
notified and Shea got there with his
dead wagon.
Mrs. Wilson'S Affidavit
The widows affidavit doesn't tell
the story in just the words we have
used but to show you that she swears
to all that is germane to this article
we reproduce the affidavit, verbatim,
below:
"In the Matter of Administration of
the Goods, Chattels and Credits of
Henry Wilson, Deceased.
STATE OF NEW YORK,
TOMPKINS COUNTY-SS.
Josephine Wilson, being duly
sworn, says that she resides at the
town of Dryden, Tompkins County,
N. Y, and is the widow of Henry
Wilson who died Unexpectedly at the
City Hospital in the city of Ithaca
on the 9th day of February, 1918.
That on March 18th, she was duly ap-
pointed the administrator of the
goods, chattels and credits of her de-
ceased husband by the Surrogate of
Tompkins County; that Mr.. Wilson
was a poor man but honest and in
dustrious and left an estate of only
$216.50 in money deposited in the
First National Bank at Ithaca, N.
y; after his death his bank book
was found in the possession of one
Mrs, Mccormick, nee McAilister, a !
clerk of the city hospital who stated |
she was holding it to pay the funeral
expenses of the deceased.
"That your deponent is Protestant
by birth and affiliation and her de-
ceased husband was also; he was
born in England of sturdy English
stock but became a naturalized cit
izen of the United States.
"That one John E. Shea is Roman
Catholic and affiliated with that
church in Ithaca, N. Y, where he
conducts Undertaking Rooms. Your
deponent did not know the said John
3. Shea and neither her husband nor
she ever affiliated with the Roman
Catholic church.
"That your deponent's mother died
one week before her husbands death
and deponent was quite overcome by
the sudden death of two near and
lear to her; and present while her
husband was dying and overcome
With grief when he was breathing his
asst, she was led from the city hos.
oital. That within a half an hour
thereafter she was informed that
John E. Shea, the Catholic UNDER