OBIT: Charles REED, 1880, Altoona, Blair County, PA

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A DISGRACEFUL OUTRAGE.
A Cripple Robbed of His Goods - Death of the Victim.

  There are different degrees of meanness, but the scoundrel who on 
Thursday night robbed a poor cripple named Charles Reed, is about the 
worst we have heard of.  It may be a satisfaction to him to know that 
his victim has since died and was never aware of the wrong done him.  
Charles Reed was a man who had been paralyzed and could not use his 
lower limbs, but pushed himself about in a little wagon made for him.  
Some of his friends fixed up a small shop near the culvert and stocked 
it with tobacco, cigars, oranges, pretzels and other articles of this 
class.  Last week he opened out and was in a fair way to make a living, 
but on Thursday night some scoundrel unlocked the front door of the 
shop and stole all the contents.  The thief is not known positively, 
but from his plan of operations is evidently the same individual who 
has been doing considerable house breaking in that part of the city.  
Two or three days since Reed was taken sick and has been lying at the 
residence of Charles Heisler, beyond the culvert.  During Thursday 
night he probably had another paralytic stroke, as yesterday, when a 
physician was called, his lungs were found to be so congested with 
blood that his decease was only a question of a few hours.  He died at 
about 3 o'clock in the afternoon, entirely unaware of the wrong done 
him by the brute who robbed his store.

Morning Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Saturday, July 10, 1880