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Walter Henry Prentice
b.1897-05-14; d.1915-09-15; Teemes, Ohio; Sandusky Register 15 Sep 1915 (Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Library)
(contributed by Carl Prentice on 2013-11-11)
Walter H. prentice, eighteen, son of H.N. Prentice, residing near Teemes, Townsend township, took two strychnine tablets Tuesday morning, thinking they were tablets that he had been taking off and on for stomach trouble. he died at 7:30 a.m.
The youth who was to have gone to Columbus to enter Ohio State university today, complained when he arose Tuesday morning, of not feeling well. His father is a Veterinary surgeon and the poison was extracted from a bottle in his laboratory.
The bottles containing the stomach medicine and the strychnine were very much alike, although the labels if they had been consulted, would gave precluded any possibility of a mistake.
Instead of getting better young prentice, soon after swallowing the tablets, began to get worse. Dr. Gorsuch was summoned from Castalia but before he arrived the deadly poison had done its work.
Young Prentice was eighteen years old last may. he graduated from the Castalia high school two years ago. His parents henry and Amelia (White) Prentice and three brothers, Erving of Castalia, , and Carl of Clyde, and Ernest of Massilon; and two sisters, mrs. leach of Clyde, and Miss Emma prentice, a schoolteacher, survive.
The youth was popular in the community in which he resided and the future held forth bright prospects for him. The announcement of his sudden death came as a shock to all who knew him.
The funeral will take place at 1:30 p.m. Thursday from the residence. Interment will be in Castalia cemetery.
The youth who was to have gone to Columbus to enter Ohio State university today, complained when he arose Tuesday morning, of not feeling well. His father is a Veterinary surgeon and the poison was extracted from a bottle in his laboratory.
The bottles containing the stomach medicine and the strychnine were very much alike, although the labels if they had been consulted, would gave precluded any possibility of a mistake.
Instead of getting better young prentice, soon after swallowing the tablets, began to get worse. Dr. Gorsuch was summoned from Castalia but before he arrived the deadly poison had done its work.
Young Prentice was eighteen years old last may. he graduated from the Castalia high school two years ago. His parents henry and Amelia (White) Prentice and three brothers, Erving of Castalia, , and Carl of Clyde, and Ernest of Massilon; and two sisters, mrs. leach of Clyde, and Miss Emma prentice, a schoolteacher, survive.
The youth was popular in the community in which he resided and the future held forth bright prospects for him. The announcement of his sudden death came as a shock to all who knew him.
The funeral will take place at 1:30 p.m. Thursday from the residence. Interment will be in Castalia cemetery.
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