Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-05-23 | Page 1 | Killed like Rat in a Trap

Killed Like let i in a Trap Strange Death Came to an Ohio Farmer's Wife While in a Barn. BUCrUCS, O..' May Si'.-Slnuular death was met by Mrs. John Lutz, a farmer's wife who lived near this city. Mrs. Lutz had climbed into a piano box in the barn to get some little chickens which had been hatched. The box had the usual slanting lid, which she propped open. 11 In some way J'.er welgnt overbalanced the box and It fell. Mr. Lutz thrust her head out of a twelve-Inch hole in the top , of the box. which in Its full caught tho woman's neck between the edge of iho hole and a b'anl agalr.si which it fell. I and she was held u in a vise until she 1 bad strangled