OBIT: Jacob WATTERSON, 1903, South Fork, Cambria County, PA

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Cambria Freeman
Ebensburg, Pa.
Friday, October 23, 1903

Death May Cause Damage Suit

  The death early Tuesday morning of Jacob Watterson, proprietor of the 
Watterson Hotel in South Fork, which occurred at the Memorial Hospital, 
Johnstown, a few hours after he had been sent from the police station 
where he had been held as a "drunk," promises to involve the Republican 
city administration in a lot of severe criticism and heavy suit for 
damages against the city.
  It appears now that Watterson was a very sick man during the time he 
was locked up in the police station, which was from Saturday afternoon 
until Monday evening during which time Dr. Miller treated him.
  It was proposed to send him to the hospital but when Watterson said 
he would not pay $15 a week, the authorities at the police station 
subsided.  About 5 o'clock Monday evening Watterson was seized with 
convulsions and in alarm Dr. Matthew was called. He at once ordered the 
man taken to the Memorial Hospital where he was placed in the padded 
cell, because there was no other room in that institution at the time. 
Watterson died Monday, just a few short hours after being admitted to 
the hospital.
  Relatives from South Fork came to Johnstown Tuesday morning and took 
the body home. Mrs. Watterson was in Altoona at the time, attending a 
funeral and she did not hear of her husband's death until nearly the 
noon hour.  She is almost distracted over her husband's death and his 
treatment.  She is left with seven children to care for.