Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 80, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1912 — DYING, GETS AID IN ODD WAY [ARTICLE]

DYING, GETS AID IN ODD WAY

Helpless Missourian Attracts Neighbor ter Hurling Shoe Through.. ’ Window. 8t Joseph, Mo. —Feeling himself to be dying, following a stroke of apoplexy while in bed, Frank N. Devons, fifty-two yean old. vice-president and general manager of the Richardson Dry Goods company, failed to attract the attention of his wife hi a neighboring room. Rousing up anff getting out of bed he seised a shoe and with a last effort hurled it through a window and against the boose of a neighbor. The latter crawled out his own bedroom window and assisted the dying man hack into bed, when he passed away before medical ted could reach him.