Robb - Charles - Montgomery InGenWeb Project

Joplin, Mo., Sept. 21—I see in your paper that you copy from the Herald of this place, which was written up on the night of the inquest and was corrected in their next, as to where the funeral took place. Dr. Kelso, who treated Charley for heart trouble, stated to the jury that cigarettes or morphine had nothing to do with his death, unless as a primary cause to weaken the heart. He was living upstairs in the Collins block, and had just left his wife, apparently in good health. He went downstairs and into the grocery on an errand and had walked about twenty feet inside when he threw out his arms, staggered and started towards the wall, pitching against it and falling to the floor. He was dead before a doctor could reach him, his own physician, Dr. Kelso, being the first to him as doctor. We were not allowed to move him until the coroner arrived from Carthage, but there were so many coming in to see him that a constable moved him to an undertaker’s, where he remained until after the inquest, when he was taken to J. S. Allen’s boarding house, where the funeral took place, that being my boarding house, and more convenient than his upstairs rooms. I hope you will give this a space in your paper, as the first publication seems to have given a wrong impression to my friends. I am Jno. B. Robb