Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1910 — FEATHER [?] KILLS BABY [ARTICLE]

FEATHER [?] KILLS BABY

Sister Causes Death of Infant Which She Did Not See Sleeping. Frankfort, Ind., July 15. —Smothered under a feather bed which his sister had thrown upon the bed where he was sleeping without discovering his presence, Oscar Sheets, the 7-moriths-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Sheets, living seven miles west of here, was” found dead. Because of the intense heat the child had been placed in a room apart from the one in which he had been sleeping. During the night a rainstorm came up and Sarah Sheets, 16 years old. carried in a feather bed which had been placed on a clothesline and threw it on the bed, which she thought was not occupied.