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Show K 19-YEAR-OLD GIRL TAKES STRYCHNINE 1 INSTEAD OF QUININE CAPSULE ' Tho tragic death of Miss Neva Bair, 19 year old daughtci ' of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Bair, of Alpine, cast a gloom over the I tire community early this week, when tho news of hoi I death went forth Monday morning. Miss Bair had been in Airfield for some time working and had came homo to Alpine to visit her folks on Thanksgiving day. She had been fl'uafrsrlag With a MTre cold tor erreral days and complained Sunday I it headache. Sunder evening the m ,ittrtad to church with her sitter and M m the way i down decided tojatop In V at th e hosae ot her brother, LeRoy I I lair, and take tome quinine tor tho I eeld, ifrhlle the slater Joined friends I down the, street. Neva, finding no I see home, went Into the house and I fot what ..she thought was quinine etpiuloe from on top ot the cabinet I tho kitchen, swallowed ono and then proceeded to the Alpine meeting home. ' She sat through the meeting, and though she made some comment about foellng ill, made no outward show of pain. When the meeting dismissed she Joined the wife ot her brother, LeRoy, who had been visiting visit-ing her huBband at tho hospital here, and who had arrived to attend tho meeting after It had commenced, and tho two started home. Sho had not tone far whoa she told Mrs. Bair tho was feeling very 111 and wanted to bo taken home, and she said to her sister-in-law: "Were thoso qul- nlno capsulos that wero ou top ol I your cabinet r and the reply wn&, I "Good, heavens no, they wore strych. sine." Tho poison had been usea for coyote bait She was token to the home of Clarence Burgess and a physician summoned, who told them I to rush her to the hospital hers. II Clarence Burgess, Edward Burgejs, .1 and William Strong, besides Mrs. fl Bair, accompained her to the , hos. fl Vital, and although all efforts were made to rolleve tho Intense suffer-H suffer-H teg, she died, about; 9:20 p. m. Sun. fl' day night. A brother from Alpine H who had como to the hospital to be H with tho brother, LeRoy, who was I badly Injured In tho canyon last I week, was with her. Tho Injured man H was unaware of his sister's death, H and as yet had not been lnformo'i. H Miss Bair was possessed of a most H loTablo disposition and to know Lcr H wag to lovo her. Hor Joking manner H and chcory ways mado her a host H of friends who mourn her untimely H H She was bora In Alpine nlnetei H years ago last September and was H raited thero, having attended tho H schools there and also high school H at Amorican Fork several years ago. H Sho was engaged to bo married to a H young man from Bountiful, who is H now laboring as a missionary on the H Friendly Islands, one ot the farthest H missions. Sho bad been to the H temple, and bad performed work H there. H Her father, who was In Colorado H at tho tlmo ot her death, wasotttlcd H and has slnco como home. Besides H her parents sho Is survived by tlii H following brothors and sisters: El. H mer Dalr ot Colorado; Eugcno Bnlr of skull Valley; LeRoy, Harold, H Howard, Golden and Elwood ot AI- ! H Pino, and a sister Lei a Bair of Alpine. H Ftinoral services for Miss Bair were held Thursday afternoon In the H Alpine meeting houso with Bp. Vaace H Presiding. Th opening mueleal aal ectlon was by the choir, followed by Prayer by Henry Moss of Bountiful. H A (young lady from Bountiful then H aang a B0lo. Edward Burgess, who was th0 first speaker, gave a short aketch of her lite, and other speak. rs were Mr. Hackoy, Mr. Perish, Miss Lylo Moss, of Bountiful and Pros. Hugh J. Cannon ot Liberty Stake, all of whom paid Ugh tribute to the character of the deceased, A trio from Bountiful and a ladles quartette from thero rendered musl- cal selections. Tho benediction waa Pronounced by Pres. 8. L. Chlpman of Amorican Fork. Intorment was made In tho Alplno cemetory where Francis L. Carllolo Corticated tho grave. |
