She was the daughter of Elias W. Hicks and Mary E. Mooney. She was married to Wilson L. Alsbaugh.
The Topeka Daily Capital
Saturday, February 25, 1911
Former Kansas Woman Dies In St. Joseph
Is Said to Have Made Dying Statement Incriminating a St. Joe Physician
Special to the Capital.
St. Joseph, Missouri, February 24. Just after Thomas Rock, a member of the firm of Rock & Clark, undertakers, had finished preparing the body of Mrs. Bessie Alsbaugh for burial prior to forwarding it to her former home in Muscotah, Kansas, Kansas coroner C.F. Byrd took possession of it and will make an investigation of a charge that death was due to a criminal operation. Mrs. Alsbaugh was taken to a local hospital several days ago and died Friday. Immediately before her death she called to her bedside Dr. F.H. Lass, who had taken her case from another physician and asked him to take a dying statement. She told him that her death was due to an operation which had been performed by a physician in St. Joseph. A few minutes after making the statement she became unconscious and died several hours later. The physician did not make known the statement to the coroner until today and the latter hastened to the undertakers, where he found the body prepared for burial. He took charge of it at once. After taking charge of the body Coroner Byrd notified a member of the force of Prosecuting Attorney C.C. Farrell and steps were taken to have a warrant issued for the physician whom the woman accused of being responsible for her death.
The Topeka Daily Capital
Saturday, February 25, 1911
Former Kansas Woman Dies In St. Joseph
Is Said to Have Made Dying Statement Incriminating a St. Joe Physician
Special to the Capital.
St. Joseph, Missouri, February 24. Just after Thomas Rock, a member of the firm of Rock & Clark, undertakers, had finished preparing the body of Mrs. Bessie Alsbaugh for burial prior to forwarding it to her former home in Muscotah, Kansas, Kansas coroner C.F. Byrd took possession of it and will make an investigation of a charge that death was due to a criminal operation. Mrs. Alsbaugh was taken to a local hospital several days ago and died Friday. Immediately before her death she called to her bedside Dr. F.H. Lass, who had taken her case from another physician and asked him to take a dying statement. She told him that her death was due to an operation which had been performed by a physician in St. Joseph. A few minutes after making the statement she became unconscious and died several hours later. The physician did not make known the statement to the coroner until today and the latter hastened to the undertakers, where he found the body prepared for burial. He took charge of it at once. After taking charge of the body Coroner Byrd notified a member of the force of Prosecuting Attorney C.C. Farrell and steps were taken to have a warrant issued for the physician whom the woman accused of being responsible for her death.
She was the daughter of Elias W. Hicks and Mary E. Mooney. She was married to Wilson L. Alsbaugh.
The Topeka Daily Capital
Saturday, February 25, 1911
Former Kansas Woman Dies In St. Joseph
Is Said to Have Made Dying Statement Incriminating a St. Joe Physician
Special to the Capital.
St. Joseph, Missouri, February 24. Just after Thomas Rock, a member of the firm of Rock & Clark, undertakers, had finished preparing the body of Mrs. Bessie Alsbaugh for burial prior to forwarding it to her former home in Muscotah, Kansas, Kansas coroner C.F. Byrd took possession of it and will make an investigation of a charge that death was due to a criminal operation. Mrs. Alsbaugh was taken to a local hospital several days ago and died Friday. Immediately before her death she called to her bedside Dr. F.H. Lass, who had taken her case from another physician and asked him to take a dying statement. She told him that her death was due to an operation which had been performed by a physician in St. Joseph. A few minutes after making the statement she became unconscious and died several hours later. The physician did not make known the statement to the coroner until today and the latter hastened to the undertakers, where he found the body prepared for burial. He took charge of it at once. After taking charge of the body Coroner Byrd notified a member of the force of Prosecuting Attorney C.C. Farrell and steps were taken to have a warrant issued for the physician whom the woman accused of being responsible for her death.
The Topeka Daily Capital
Saturday, February 25, 1911
Former Kansas Woman Dies In St. Joseph
Is Said to Have Made Dying Statement Incriminating a St. Joe Physician
Special to the Capital.
St. Joseph, Missouri, February 24. Just after Thomas Rock, a member of the firm of Rock & Clark, undertakers, had finished preparing the body of Mrs. Bessie Alsbaugh for burial prior to forwarding it to her former home in Muscotah, Kansas, Kansas coroner C.F. Byrd took possession of it and will make an investigation of a charge that death was due to a criminal operation. Mrs. Alsbaugh was taken to a local hospital several days ago and died Friday. Immediately before her death she called to her bedside Dr. F.H. Lass, who had taken her case from another physician and asked him to take a dying statement. She told him that her death was due to an operation which had been performed by a physician in St. Joseph. A few minutes after making the statement she became unconscious and died several hours later. The physician did not make known the statement to the coroner until today and the latter hastened to the undertakers, where he found the body prepared for burial. He took charge of it at once. After taking charge of the body Coroner Byrd notified a member of the force of Prosecuting Attorney C.C. Farrell and steps were taken to have a warrant issued for the physician whom the woman accused of being responsible for her death.
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