Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 158, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1913 — PINEAPPLE WOUND IS FATAL [ARTICLE]

PINEAPPLE WOUND IS FATAL

Woman’s Thumb Scratched as She Cleans Fruit and Her Death Soon Follows. Syracuse, N. Y.—Mrs. Catherine Tourtellot died from blood poisoning resulting from her thumb being scratched by a piece of pineapple which she was peeling. Twelve hours after the'incident the hand began to swell, and the swelling extended gradually through the arm. Mrs. Tourtellot was taken to a hospital, but the • poison had spread through her system and the physicians could not save her life.