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Show After seeing the crumpled bodies, I started running from the sight and smell of death. ::: "Steve's cough was keeping us both up nights" didn't mind so much for myself, but Steve's coughing and blocked "I Gliristmffls breathing were waking him up in the middle of the night, just when he needed his sleep the most!" Mrs. Patty Sue McCool of Ashland City, Tennessee, told us. "Nothing seemed to really work until I tried new Fletcher's Coug Syrup. I guess the biggest differ ence was, Fletcher's Cough Syrup not only relieved Steve's haggingl Here is a shocking but true story which every driver should read; cough, but it also opened his stuffed nose and eased his blocked breathing with Another important thing to me: Fletcher's has no narcotics of any kind. And it has a nice cherry Neo-Synephri- the author, who was an ordinary, decent family man, is ne. flavor Steve likes." Unlike ordinary cough syrups, syrups without new, Fletcher's Children's Cough Neo-Synephrin- e-, now behind prison bars Syrup relieves both nagging coughs and blocked breathing. That's hd it helps promote restful sleep... 0 actually relieves cold symptoms most cough syrups are powerless to stop. Now available at drug counters everywhere, this new Children's Cough Syrup is made by Fletcher's, the oldest, most dependable name sleep-disturbi-ng By BRUCE CLINE No. 108094, Stat Prison of Southern Michigan I michiganX I A 108 094 Now Steve McCool, age 6, of Ashland City, Tenn., can sleep when he has a cough and cold. little of humanity left about their crumpled, broken bodies. I turned and ran and was sick while I ran. There was no question of being able to help them. All I could think of was getting away from that place and from the sight and the smell of death. I ran until I came to a service station three or four blocks away. There was a inphone booth there, and I hid myself side it. I would have kept going if I had had the strength, but it wouldn't have done any good. With the numbness and shock wearing off, I couldn't hide from the knowledge of what I had done. I knew it; still it was so hard to believe. This is me, I kept telling myself. I have a wife and two kids who are waiting for me to come home. The day after tomorrow will be Christmas, and that horror doesn't really exist down the road. I'd had two bottles of beer and could walk and talk as well as anyone. I wasn't one of those irresponsible drunks you always read about in the papers. I'd never even had a parking ticket. Kill someone? Other people did that sometimes, but not me or any of my friends. Even when I put my hand to the blood stiffening on my pants leg, I couldn't believe it. And when the ambulances howled by outside, I tried to pretend that I didn't know where they were going and that they had nothing to do with me. But I did know with a terrifying cer tainty where the ambulances were going and what they would find in that car on the highway. Yet a lifetime of being just a normal person like anyone else, a lifetime of not hurting others let alone killing them wouldn't let me accept it. I don't know how long it was before I left the phone booth and made my way back downtown. But it was four hours after the accident when the police arrested me for leaving the scene. was a year ago, and the tragic of that single instant of inattention are still felt by many people by my family and by the parents and children of the young couple I killed. Perhaps it will be another year before I am out of prison. In the meantime, I cms in children's medicines. Seals o o o DeWitt's PUls, with positive analgesic . i! r - r if at rcuci action, onng last painauvc : i i. auu in um.k., puns juium symptomatic muscles DeWitt's Pills are mildlv diu retic and help flush out unwanted . CSIH Stt$ wastes left by sluggish kidneys. 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