Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1919 — Smoke Reveals Woman’s Death. [ARTICLE]

Smoke Reveals Woman’s Death.

Lafayette, May 30. —Smoke Issuing from the basement window of Mrs. Frederika Muller’s home in South Sixth street led to the finding of her body. She had died suddenly while washing clothes in the basement of her home. On a gas stove was a boiler which had gone dry and the heat had set fire to the clothing. Neighbors smelled burning cloth and then saw the smoke. They Investigated and found the woman dead. She was eighty years old and lived alone. Four children survive.