Monroe-Greene County IN Archives News.....Plunges From Hotel Window At Anderson October 15, 1949
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Herald-Times October 15, 1949
During a two-woman argument and scuffle over a dollar, 200 pound Mrs. Sybil 
Shields, native of Bloomington, hurtled two stories last night from an 
Anderson, Indiana hotel, falling to her death in the paved alley after 
crashing through a glass window.  Mrs. Joan Williams, 19-year-old Anderson 
woman, who weighed only 100 pounds, fell on top of Mrs. Shields, receiving 
possible serious internal injuries.
	Coroner George Albright said that witnesses reported that the 
altercation occurred when Mrs. Williams went to the hotel to visit her 
parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Stevenson.  She laid her purse down and a few 
moments later found a dollar missing.  She questioned the 11-year-old son of 
Mrs. Shields, who also lived in the hotel.  Mrs. Shields intervened.  The 
women scuffled in a corridor and crashed through a window, falling to the 
paved alley.
	Mrs. Shields, a native-born Bloomingtonian, had left this city some 
five years ago to make her home in Anderson, where she has been employed in 
the Delco-Remy plant. She was the daughter of the late William and Levia 
McCullough.  Her mother passed away only a year ago.
	The remains were returned to Bloomington today noon to the Allen 
mortuary where they will lie in state.  Funeral services will be held Monday 
at 2 p.m. in the Allen chapel with Rev. Clyde Sciscoe officiating.


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