Iberia County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....Smith, Dr. Temple B. - October 4, 1910
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source: New Iberia Enterprise and Independent Observer. (New Iberia, La.)
1902-1944, October 08, 1910, Image 1

DR. TEMPLE SMITH DIED FROM WOUND. - Lake Charles, a. m., Oct. 4. - Dr. 
Temple B. Smith for many years a leading physician of Lake Charles and 
president of the local Board of Health, died at St. Patrick's sanitarium 
last evening shortly before 5 o'clock as a result of a wound inflicted by 
his wife September 26. Dr. Smith was shot by Mrs. Smith after a family row 
had been indulged in. Owing to the prominence of both parties the case has 
created a great sensation in Lake Charles. Mrs. Smith being a club woman 
standing high in social circles.

For the past three days Dr. Smith has hovered between life and death and it 
was not thought that he could survive as long as he did. While every effort 
was made to save him, the nature of the wound was such that his physicians 
held out but small hope from the outset. The wound which caused his death 
was a pistol shot, the ball entering the intestines. Gangrene followed the 
operation by his physicians and death followed last evening.

Coroner Fisher impaneled a jury as soon as he heard of Dr. Smith's death and 
proceeded to the Smith residence at Common and Washington streets, where 
Mrs. Smith had been under surveillance since the shooting occurred, to hold 
an inquest.

Newspapermen were excluded from the hearing at Mrs. Smith's request.

Dr. Smith's dying statement will be introduced this afternoon and it is not 
likely that any verdict will be rendered until it is read. District Attorney 
Joseph Moore has been asked for the dying statement of Dr. Smith but stated 
that he did not think it would be advisable to give out anything until after 
the matter had been laid before the coroner's jury.


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