Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Taylor, Benjamin H. 1913
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The Lowell Ledger, April 3, 1913

Another victim has been added to the list of those whose lives have been 
sacrificed as a direct result of the liquor traffic in Lowell, Benjamin Taylor 
of Eaton township, Ionia county.

Benjamin, who is a son of Thomas and Mary Taylor, came to Lowell Tuesday at 
request of another, was arrested by Deputy Sheriff Raimer at about 5 o’clock 
p.m., for fast driving on Main street, while intoxicated, and lodged in the 
village jail.

About 8 o’clock in the evening Raimer went to the jail to take the prisoner’s 
supper.  When he unlocked the door, a dense cloud of smoke poured out.  
Closing his eyes and holding his breath, Raimer rushed in and managed to 
unlock the cell door and get back to the open air, where he rang the fire 
alarm.

The first men to respond to the bell, dragged the inanimate body of Taylor out 
doors, where Doctors McDannell and Anderson attempted to resuscitate him, but 
in vain.  The mattress in the cell was partially burned and Taylor’s overcoat 
was scorched.  The body was blackened by smoke, not burned, as early reports 
had it.

Justice Andrews impanelled the following jurors: G. M. Winegar, E. A. Thomas, 
E. L. Kinyon, A. J. Nash, E. B. Williams and J. B. Yeiter, and adjourned 
hearing to Thursday at 9 o’clock a.m.

Taylor was a well to do farmer who lived about 4 ˝ miles north east of 
Saranac, was about 35 years old and leaves a wife and one child.  Relatives of 
the deceased came Tuesday night and the body was removed to Yeiter & 
Wadsworth’s undertaking establishment and prepared for burial.  Next day it 
was taken away by the Saranac undertaker.


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