Clark County NV Archives Obituaries.....REDLUND, Adolph January 8 1917
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Las Vegas Age - 1/13/1917
LAS VEGAS AGE

1/13/1917



STRANGER FOUND DEAD IN BATH



ADOLPH REDLUND OF GOODSPRINGS DIES AT OXFORD, UNDER PECULIAR CONDITIONS



    Adolph REDLUND, a miner from the Goodsprings district came to Vegas

Monday and applied for a bath at Adam KRAMER's barber shop about 3 p.m.  He

was taken to the Oxford by the proprietor and left to bathe.  About five

o'clock KRAMER went to the Oxford to clean up the bath and found the door

locked on the inside.  Unable to get any answer to his calls he broke in the

door and found REDLUND lying in the tub dead, his head resting on the

faucets which were still running.  In the tub beside REDLUND's body was a

home made electrical device for heating the water, with the current still

on.

    The coroner's jury, composed of C. E. PEMBROKE, foreman, Jack PRICE,

Percival S. SMITHE, W. J. REID, R. E. ROCKWELL and Wm. L. HELM returned a

verdict that the cause of death was heart failure.

    Dr. A. N. GILL testified that he held an autopsy on the remains and

found the heart and its adjuncts in a diseased and weakened condition and

that a comparatively slight shock might produce death under such

circumstances.  Harry T. COFFEY, Leon ROCKWELL and Mr. SULLIVAN,

electricians, testified that the electric shock which might be suffered by

one picking up the heating apparatus would not ordinarily be serious.

    While it is the general opinion that the heater was dangerous and may

have been responsible for the heart failure, the jury took the view that

there was no positive evidence that REDLUND received any shock from it.

    With his partner, John ARNATON, Mr. REDLUND worked at the Christmas mine

and before that at the Anchor, near Goodsprings.

    The dceased was a native of Sweden and was naturalized at North Easton,

Mass.  He was a member of the Skandonaviska Brodra Forbundet of Amerika at

North Easton, was a widower and leaves three children living who are

supposed to be in Sweden.





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