Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....McSherry, Alton 1902
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The Belding Banner, Thursday, March 20, 1902
The village of Lyons has been much excited and mystified over a strange 
affair.  Alton McSherry and Nicholas Lawless were excused from school early on 
Friday afternoon.  That they went to the McSherry home and played around for 
an hour or more, they were then taken ill and within a few hours young 
McSherry was dead.  His companion has been in a precarious condition ever 
since but will doubtless pull through all right.  The boys were each 8 years 
old.  Young Lawless when he recovered somewhat told what is considered the 
true story of the affair.  He says that while on their way from school Alton 
McSherry, the boy who is now dead, found under a sidewalk a small bottle 
wrapped in a newspaper.  The bottle contained a reddish liquid.  Young 
McSherry drank part of it and offered the remainder to the Lawless boy, saying 
that it tasted sweet.  The latter drank a little of it and then they threw the 
bottle into the driver.  A third boy, Roy Denny, was with them but did not 
touch the liquid.

Dr. Ogden, who attended the boys, now thinks that the liquid was some sort of 
an arsenical mixture.  The exact nature of it will probably never be known.



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