Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1909 — WOMAN BURNS TO DEATH [ARTICLE]

WOMAN BURNS TO DEATH

Blind Husband Hears Cries but Is Unable to Help Her. Anderson, Ind., arch 16.—Word has been received here' that Mrs. Mary Helms, seventy-eight years old, living in the country southeast of this city, was burned to death in her smoke* house, where she was curing meat Her cries were heard by her blind husband and he groped his way to her

side, but could not help her. He was painfully burned.