The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-10-14
father DEAD
WODAYS AS
Family HOPES
Sons and Daughter Return
to Hospital, Find Body
Taken Away.
NO MESSAGE OF DEATH
End Comes to Auto Victim
at City Hospital With No
Relatives Near.

For two days, while the family OF
Adolph Cubel, IA, auto accident VIC
tim, prayed hopefully, confidently
for his recovery at city hospital,
their father lay at the institution in
the stiffness of death.
The sons and the daughter had
not been informed. Somewhere
there had been a slip in the estab-
lished chain of communication that
bears the sad tidings to relatives IN
such cases.
For two days after Cubel'S daughter,
Mrs. Gertrude Messer, visited nm
at the hospital and found him ap-
parently recovering, she, and her
brothers, Harry Cubel, 1872 Lincoln
St. and Leo Cubel, with whom the,
old man lived, looked forward to
finding him greatly improved on the
next visiting day.
Dead; No Word Given
When Wednesday came, the
daughter tiptoed into the ward Gag
erly. But Dad" was not on the
cot where she had left him two days
before.
She turned with her question to
another bed-ridden patient she had
seen at her fathers bedside before.
your father?" he asked in re-
turn. "Was that, your father on
that other cot there? Why, didn't
they tell you? He died right after
you left-two days ago."
1t was Wednesday, Oct. 5, when
the family learned of the death|The
end had come Monday, Oct. 8, in
the evening after Mrs. Messer's visit.
Cubel, aged and with failing sight,
had stepped in front of an automo-
bile driven by Lawrence Barton, 10,
of 623 Prospect St., at Terrace and
Madison AYES, Sunday morning.
Oct. 2.
He had received cut on the neck
and broken ribs. The fatal injury
was to his lung. pierced by splin-
tered rib. .,
No Message Received
"My sister went to the hospital
office" Harry said today, and
asked why we hadn't been notified.
She was told a policeman had been
sent to Leo's, 218 Lincoln St., to tell
us or leave word if no one was 1t
home.
There had been some one there
all that evening, but they didn't get
any message They had no phone.
IT went out to the hospital then"
Harry continued, land they told me
the body was ready to be claimed. I
called an undertaken. Next day,
Thursday, Oct. 6, the undertaken
told me they wouldn't let the body
go-that it was coroner's case.
$50 the undertaken got one of the
coroner's deputies and he went out
with him and ordered the body re-
leased. When the undertaken. and
I went to the coroner'S office Thurs
day, the coroner said he was not
notified of the death until p. m.
Wednesday, two days after it &C.
Cured"
Saturday morning, the fifth day
after his death, Cubel was buried
at st. Josephs cemetery.
Hospital records show a police
man was dispatched to the Cubel
home with the message of the death
on the evening of it's occurrence;
with the officers report that there
was no one at home. mo reference
was made to having tried to leave
word by note or with neighbors.
\ Delay Not Explained
Hospital authorities said the
family was well aware of the pa
TENTS serious condition" and that
''it was singular they made no in
quiry about it, in which case they
surely would have been informed
of the DEATH They did not explain
the two-day delay in informing the
coroner.
Records at the office of Coroner
Charles H. Keever show report of
the death entered Thursday, Oct.
6, although first report probably
reached the office the preceding
night. Deputies are continuing
search for witnesses of the accident,
before recommending any action
against the driver.
Its done now" Harry Cubel said
today, dismissing the matter, ."but
I'd hate to think such thing might
happen again. Father lived here
fifty years and it seems rather
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