Osage County KS Archives Obituaries.....CRIPPS, Ray  February 15, 1928
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/ks/ksfiles.htm
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Jim Laird jlaird@bellsouth.net August 3, 2006, 11:17 pm

The Scranton Gazette
Osage County
Friday
February 15, 1928

Died From Poison Hootch.
Nathan GREEN, farmer seven miles northwest of Burlingame is at liberty on $2,000
bond on a liquor charge in Osage County and a more serious charge may be brought
against him as the result of the death of Ray CRIPPS, the Harveyville
blacksmith, from alchoholic poisoning last week, according to Sheriff J.T.
RANKIN of Osage County.
Cripp's body was found in his barn and a coronor's jury pronounced his death due
to alcoholic poisoning. Osage and Wabaunsee county officers are making an
investigation to ascertain if Green should be held in connection with Cripp's
death, Sheriff Rankin said.
Green, as soon as he was arrested admitted selling Cripps the liquor, but
declared Cripps was already drunk when the sale was made, Sheriff Rankin said.
Two men who were with Cripps drank some of the liquor but suffered no ill
effects from it.--Topeka Capital.
Coroner W.C. HASENBACK was called to Harveyville about 9 o'clock Saturday
morning, as soon as Ray's body was found by his father, Chas. Cripps. An inquest
was held but their verdict was not given out, pending further investigation.
Ray worked in the blacksmith shop with his father. He had been drinking hard for
some time. The supposition is that he took the first drink out of the bottle and
got most of the poison and this is the reason others who drank were not hurt.
Ray was about 35 years old and has a wife and three children. He worked for
Dougans at Paxico two or three years and his father says this should be a
warning to those given to the use of hootch. It's powerful and it's
poison.--Alma Enterprise. 


==== KS-FOOTSTEPS Mailing List ====


File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ks/osage/obits/c/cripps254ob.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ksfiles/

File size: 2.2 Kb