Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 120, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1916 — Invalid Cremated in His Chair. [ARTICLE]

Invalid Cremated in His Chair.

Philadelphia.—-Unable to make his feeble voice heard, James B. Yerkes, a sixty-nine-year old invalid, was burned to death in his chair in his home in Philadelphia. It is supposed Yerkes dropped a lighted pipe among his clothing.