Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 100, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1902 — Girl Turning to Marble. [ARTICLE]

Girl Turning to Marble.

Miss Dorothy Stiles, daughter <f a retired chemist, formerly f >om Columbus, 0., but now living seven miles from Bay City, is gradually turning to marble, or a substance resembling it, and her father is nearly frenzied with grief, as he imagines he is partially responsible for her present terrible condition, which must soon result in death. A few days agg< after she had been troubled with a stiffness in her limbs several days, she was bathiDg, when she discovered a portion of her heels were hard like stone and almost suow white. Screaming in fright, she ran to her parents, who made the disoovtry ♦ hat not only her. heels but her shoulder blades and cheek bones were as hard as stone, and appeared like marble. Since that time the girl has been gradually transforming into this substance, which gives forth a 6ort of metalio ring when gently tapped with a hard substance. The doctors oan do nothing, and the girl is now so she cannot walk and only moves her bead slightly. She suffers no pain, but her bones and the callons portions of her body all appear to be gradually turning to marble. The father says he waa experimenting and left some peculiar fluid in the bath tnb where the girl bathed, and that he ascribes his daughter’s condition to that faot. He has threatened suicide in his grief, and the mother is almost frantic with her troubles.