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Show HEBER LEE FALLS DEAD IN A CIGAR STORE; LAST WORDS WERE "OH, MY!" Heber Lee, 46 years old, shipping clerk of the H. Dinwoodey Furniture company, dropped dead in the LaVielle Cigar store, 10 West Second South street, about 9 o'clock this morning. Just a few minutes before this Lee entered en-tered the cigar store where he greeted William Haywood and John McNally, both old friends. "I have been running with perspira- ''.' ; .t ion all morning." said Lee, as he took , a, seat, between the two men. "and feel very bad. Another attack like this and it, will be all over with me." A - moment later Haywood and Me-Nallv Me-Nallv heard him say: "Oh, my..". The sentence was left unfinished as Lee sank back in the chair. Havwood and the colored porter, who had just entered the store from the rear, reached for Lee. Feft His Heart Flutter. The colored porter felt the heart gave a. few hurried flutters as the head of Lee dropped bark on . the chair. "He is dead or dving," exclaimed McNally as he hurried From the store in search of a doctor. Dr. Dart was the first physician to (Continued on Page 4) HEBER LEE FALLS DEAD (Continued from Pago 1) ' arrive, but Lee had been dead some time when the doctor reached the store. It is the belief of Dr. Dart that Lee died a few seconds after he uttered tho worlds, "Oh. my." James E. Lynch, Jr., clerk in charge of the store, notified Henry Dinwoodey, Jr., who at once ordered tho body removed re-moved to the undertaking parlors of Joseph William Taylor. Due to Stomach Trouble. Death was undoubtedly due to a complication com-plication of stomach troubles. A short time ago Lee underwent an operation for a stomach malady from which he had suffered for years. For a short time after tho operation he felt that he was improving. During the last few days, however, he had complained of the trouble in a worse form. Ho passed a bad night last night, and did not report for work this morning, ss had been his custom every morning for the last twenty-five years when it was possible for him to get to work. Leaving his home on West North Temple Tem-ple street, he walked up town and into the cigar store where he died. Something of Dead Man. Heber Lee was born in this city July 24, 1838. Andrew, and Charlotta Lee wero his parents. His father died in 1863 and his mother two years later. A family of five children was left, two boyB, James and Heber, and three daughters. A 'short time after the death of the mother, the two boys were adopted by Henry Dinwoodey, the furniture fur-niture man, by whom they were reared. As soon as the boys became old enough to go to work, they entered the employ em-ploy of their foster father, James still being an employee of that firm. The deceased married Miss Blanche Pitt, a daughter of William Pitt, who survives him. Besides the widow, the deceased is survived by his brother James and three sisters. Mr. Lee was well liked by those who knew him best. "He did not have a single bad habit that I ever knew of," said a life-long friend this morning.- The arrangements for the funeral had not been completed up to noon today. |