Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 132, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1916 — CHILD SMOTHERS IN COTTON [ARTICLE]

CHILD SMOTHERS IN COTTON

Little Girl Digs Wole In Pile and Turnbkee InGuthrie, Okla»-The 9 year old daughter of Paul Bltebie, a farmer living near Prague, 30 mites west of here, was drowned in a pile of cotton in her father’s field. When the little gfed was missed her parents started out to search for her. Her father finally saw her shoes m top of the huge mound of cotton, and closer examination disclosed her body burled, head first, In the fluffy mass. She evidently had dug a hole in the pile and then accidentally fallen into it, the loose cotton packing about hex and smothering her.