Odell - Mrs. Hattie Ackley, 74, died at 11 a.m. Sunday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Kenneth Stubblefield about two miles east of Odell from carbolic acid poisioning.
A coroner's jury under the direction of Dr. H. L. Shafer, coroner of Livingston county, returned a verdict of "accidental death by carbolic acid poisioning, self administered.
Mrs. Ackley had gone to Odell with her other daughter, Mrs. C. A. Gordon, who was to catch a bus to Chicago, her home. After returning home, she went upstairs.
The daughter, Mrs. Stubblefield, happened to go upstairs and heard her mother breathing spasmodically. She discovered the empty bottle from which the acid had come and immediately called Dr. George Blough.
Mrs. Ackley had recently returned to Odell from Chicago and since that time, her health had been poor. She had been taking numerous medicines, both liquid and capsules, and apprarently she got hold of a wrong bottle.
Odell - Mrs. Hattie Ackley, 74, died at 11 a.m. Sunday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Kenneth Stubblefield about two miles east of Odell from carbolic acid poisioning.
A coroner's jury under the direction of Dr. H. L. Shafer, coroner of Livingston county, returned a verdict of "accidental death by carbolic acid poisioning, self administered.
Mrs. Ackley had gone to Odell with her other daughter, Mrs. C. A. Gordon, who was to catch a bus to Chicago, her home. After returning home, she went upstairs.
The daughter, Mrs. Stubblefield, happened to go upstairs and heard her mother breathing spasmodically. She discovered the empty bottle from which the acid had come and immediately called Dr. George Blough.
Mrs. Ackley had recently returned to Odell from Chicago and since that time, her health had been poor. She had been taking numerous medicines, both liquid and capsules, and apprarently she got hold of a wrong bottle.
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