Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1918 — CORONER CALLED YESTERDAY [ARTICLE]

CORONER CALLED YESTERDAY

1-eath of Aged Camper Near Dunn's Siding, on the Kankakee. Coroner W. J. Wright was called to the north end of the ccyjaty yesterday morning tq investigate of Samuel A. Rhode of Warren county, who, with another old comrade, James K. Coleman, of the same vicinity, had been fishing at the Kankakee river north of Dunn’s Siding. These two old men, who had been hunters and sportsmen' for yeafs, had been in the habit of coming to the Kankakee each season to camp, hunt and fish. They occupied two separate tents and one slept in each. Mr. Coleman, who is eighty-five years old, said that he heard his comrade snoring at midnight. (He got up himself early yesterday morning and went out to look at the lines they had set in the river. It was his partner’s duty to get breakfast while he was attending to the lines. When he returned and breakfast was not in sight he made an investigation and found Mr. Rhode lying on his face on the ground inside the tent, stone dead. He had evidently died of heart disease 4nd had fallen from his cot to the ground, perhaps in a death struggle. Deceased was seventyone years of age. Both comrades were old soldiers. The body was taken to Wheatfield and will be taken from there to Warren county for burial.