Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1908 — BABY DAUGHTER [ARTICLE]

BABY DAUGHTER

Of Indiana Minister Who Eloped With a Domestic is Dead. Jeffersonville, Ind., November 10. —ln the death today of his ljttle daughter in a hospital here, a tragic chapter has been added to the story of desertion by Rev. J. W. Richey, former pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church, at Charlottesville, Ind., In September, of his wife, Mrs. Lillian Richey, and baby daughter, that he might, flee with Bertha Williamson, a domestic. The death of the child was the result of a complication of typhoid fever and brain trouble. The heart-boken mother, when seen tonight, sat beside the little cot containing the body of the golden-hair-ed' child with a grief too deep for tears. v