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       ICY LAKE WATERS
  Take Lives of Physician and
            Nurse.

   The tragic fate of Dr. Theodore C.
Greist, Put-in-Bay physician, and
Miss Sylvia Schultz, Toledo nurse,
who lost their lives near the Islands
last Saturday night, has been the
subject of universal interest.  They
had driven in an automobile from
Put-in-Bay to Middle Bass to see a
patient of Dr. Greist, and on the re-
turn trip either got too venturesome
or became confused, got out of their
course and their car went throught
the thin ice west of Green Island and
both were drowned.  All night and
all day search was made for them but
not until Monday was the spot found
where the car struck the thin ice and
went down in 30 feet of water, carry-
ing both its occupants to a watery
grave.  Both bodies and the car were
recovered.
   Dr. Greist, Put-in-Bay's only phy-
sician, was 32 years old and was un-
gaged to be married in the spring to
a young lady of the island.  Miss
Schultz was known to a number of
Clyde people, having been the nurse
in charge of Arthur Miller's case
when he underwent an operation in
a Toledo hospital.  She was engages
to be married soon to a young man 
of that city.
   Miss Schultz had been called to
Put-in-Bay to nurse Mrs. T. B. Alex-
ander, wife of the Island Mayor, who
was formerly Miss Edith Brown, a
granddaughter of John Brown of
Harper's Ferry fame, who "soul goes
marching on."
   The tragedy is one of the saddest
in the history of the islands.

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