Utterback - inf. of Prof. Ed - Montgomery InGenWeb Project

Waynetown, June 13—The infant child of Prof. Ed Utterback and wife, of Salina, Kansas, met with death in a peculiar way this morning at the home of its grandfather, James Warfield, near Ingersol Church. The child had been brought back to Indiana by its grandmother a few weeks ago in advance of its parents who were coming here to spend the summer. This morning the child, which was not two years old, was playing about the sewing machine and in some way got hold of a screw about an inch in length. This it attempted to swallow and the screw took lodgement in the child’s windpipe, causing death in less than four minutes. Dr. Hurt was summoned from Waynetown and removed the screw, but, of course, could not save the child. -s