Salt Lake Telegram | 1906-06-16 | Page 5 | Woman's Dead Body Was Found in Bed

WOMAN'S DEAD BODY WAS FOUND IN BED WEISER, Ida., June 15. Mabel Burroughs, Bur-roughs, an unmarried woman 33 years of age, who resided on a ranch belonging to her brother-in-law in Oregon, about six miles from Weiser, was found dead in bed by neighbors yesterday. She was keeping two children of her brother-in-law, James Goggess, who is employed on the O. R. & N. railway at The Dalles, Or. The children are aged 3 and 5 years, the youngest of whom is blind, and walked walk-ed two miles to the nearest neighbors and informed them that their auntie was asleep and they could not wake her. On investigation it was ascertained that she had died Friday of last week and the little onee had 'staid there aione until they were nearly famished for food. Death was supposed to have resulted from heart failure, and an inquest was not deemed- necessary. The brother-in-law arrived this afternoon and took charge of the body, which will be burled at Boise.