OBIT: Charles Clinton SMELSER, 1901, Altoona, Blair County, PA

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DIED FROM DRUGS
Morphine and Easter Egg Dye Eaten by an Infant, Charles C. Smelser.

  Charles Clinton, 18 months-old son of Harry A. and Margaret G. 
Smelser, died last evening at 6:10 o'clock, after eating poison.  
Yesterday morning at 10 o'clock the child went to the kitchen cupboard, 
where a dish containing Easter egg dye was setting.  The child 
swallowed a mouthful of dye and then went into the sitting room, where 
on the table lay several morphine pellets, which had been prescribed 
for the mother.  The boy carelessly ate several of them.  His mother, 
who saw him close the box, took him to the office of Dr. Isenberg, next 
door.  He soon became unconscious and though Drs. Blose and Oburn were 
also summoned, he never regained consciousness.  The physicians stated 
that two of the pellets were sufficient to cause death, and it is 
probable that the child ate more than that number.
  The funeral will take place tomorrow afternoon at 2:30, from the 
residence of the child's grandfather, Mr. A. W. Keith, in the East End, 
services to be conducted by Rev. S. S. Hough.  Interment in Greenwood 
cemetery.

Altoona Mirror, Altoona, Pa., Saturday, April 6, 1901