The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1936-08-21
Suffering From Painful Ailment,
Seeks Deliverance by
ASphyxiation.

It was with deep sorrow and a
distinct shock that the people OF
this community learned that
Ralph v. Scott, past commander of
Hardin Post No. g., American Le-
ion, aged AZ, was found dead,
Sunday afternoon about three
o'clock, seated in the rear seat of
his Plymouth sedan car on the
Hardin airport, on the Fort Gus
ter bench, about two miles east of
Hardin. Death was due to asphyx-
iation. He had evidently af-
fixed a tube from a vacuum
cleaner to the exhaust pipe from
his automobile, using gummed
tape to make it adhere to the
pipe. The tube had then been
placed through an opening in the
email panel of glass at the rea of
mis- car, on the right side, and
rags had been stuffed around the
tube to close the opening, thus
making it alright.
Mr.. Scott had been doing work
as a case worker for the FERA at
Roundup, and several days ago
was taken ill of a sinus affection
and taken to a hospital, where an
operation was performed We'd
nesday for the draining of the
sinus tubes and he was brought
to the family home at Hardin to
recuperate. He had been some
what delirious and was closely
watched by his two brothers, John
L. and Willard J. Scott, at the
Scott home on North Cody ave-
nue., where the three brothers
lived. Saturday afternoon he
quietly slipped out of the house
and drove away in his car before
his absence was noticed. Search
was instituted, but no trace of
him could be found.
Ralph v. Scott had charge of
the crews which laid out and did
the work OF the Hardin airport,
in which he was keenly interested,
and about ten o'clock Saturday
night, with UnderSherif w. S.
Brooks, his brother Willard J.
Scott motored up to the airport
and turning on their car lights
searched. for him there, but failed
to- find him, though it now is as
sured that his car wasAat that
time in the same spot in which it
was later found, and that he was
at that time lying dead in his car.
as neighbcrs saw the car drive up
to the airport about three o'clock
Saturday afternoon.
Sunday morning about eight
o'clock, c. w. Hutton and Harry
Clawson of Hardin passed by the
airport while going fishing and
noticed the car standing there. On
returning home about three in
the afternoon they noticed the
al still was there and drove over
to it and discovered the dead
body in the rear seat and noticed
the tube leading from the ex-
haust pipe into the rear win
dow of the car, but failed to
recognize whose body it was.
ed to the sheriff's office, giving the
a license number, which I'm
dersherif Brooks recognized at
once as Ralph v. SCOTS. Under
taker John w. Bulls, who also is
coroner of Big Horn county, to-
gether with a half dozen carloads
of citizens motored to the airport
and after viewing the body and
considering the circumstances
surrounding the case, decided that
the cause of death was evident
and that an inquest was un-
necessary. The remains were TAX
en- to the Bulls Crilly mortuary
in Hardin and prepared for burial.
Ralph v. Scott, a native of La
Crosse, Wise, was the second of
three sons born to Mr.. and Mrs.
William J. Scott, prominent pio-
neer residents of Hardin, both
now deceased. His father Was
Hardin's second mayor and he
also represented Big Horn county
in the lower house of the legisla-
ture in 1917. With his parents
Ralph came to Hardin in 1907. He
attended the grade and high
schools of Hardin and in 1916 en-
rolled in the University of Wis
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