Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 261, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1913 — SAYS OBENCHAIN DIED FROM HEART DISEASE [ARTICLE]

SAYS OBENCHAIN DIED FROM HEART DISEASE

Coroner Renders Verdict in Case of Student Whose Death Followed Tank Scrap. ■ ■ A ■ - v L. According to the verdict which was filed Friday by Coroner Roy V. Hannell, of Tippecanoe county, F. W. Obenchajn’s death following the Purdue tank scrap, Friday night, Sept. 19, was caused not by violence but by acute cardiac dilation. Local physicians who were in attendance confirm the coroner’s findings and say that O ben chain died from natural causes. All Lafayette physicians agree with the coroner as to the existence of an enlarged thyroid gland or so-called goitre. Charles Bradshaw, the undertaker who washed and cared for the body, say® there were no bruises on the body. Physicians who held an autopsy at the home of the dead student’s father at South Whitley, are not in accord. Dr. A. H. Mcßeth Says that the third vertebrae was fractured and dislocated. Dr. H. G. Eberhard says that the first cervical vertebra was fractured. Dr. Eberhard says that there was a dislocation of vertebrae, and does not mention thwt there was a fracture/ J. A. Travelbee testified before the coroner that he had known Obenehain for eight; years and that on one occasion when Obenehain was a member of the South Whitley high school delegation at an athletic contest he became ~so weak from yelling for his team he fainted and had to be worked over for fifteen minutes before he was restored to consciousness.