Salt Lake Telegram | 1909-08-07 | Page 1 | Woman Believes Dead Husband but Sleeping Soundly

WOMAN NOMAN BELIEVES DEAD HUSBAND BUT Bill SLEEPING Barr Barricades House and RefuSes Refuses Re Re- fuses to Have the Body Buried LATROBE Pa Aug 7 Following i.-FollowIng the death last Monday of of her aged ged husband husban John Gardner Gardnel a a. civil civil- sor lr veteran Mrs s. Gardner has lost her reason refusing to admit an any one to her home wear nar Ligonier and having Interfered with 1 the funeral and burial She bhe he was alone with her ber when he lie died and possessed with an Idt idea a she could protect herself hersel from the entrance of death If she barricaded the house She fastened the windows drew the shades shadel I bolted and locked the doors and piled furniture furniture fur fur- fur I against them and then lighted lamps She Sho dragged the body of her husband husband husband hus hus- band from a bed to the floor Wednesday i she appeared on the streets and when asked said eald he regarding was dJ dead d her or sleeping husbands husband's and death t f that i she she I could not arouse him When neighbors went to the house they th- saw the body on the floor and sent for an undertaker lie was refused entrance but returned later with a constable The Thedoor Thedoor I door had to be forced The woman refused to have any preparations made for the funeral When hen neighbors came to comfort comfort com corn fort her she drove them from the house the tho The ee funeral body ara araa was was a taken k held from at r tt the the place Methodist i o and church chuich at Etna The widow did not at attend at- at tend but locked J herself In the house and would admit no on one The Tho case ease Is being Investigated by the authorities