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Show DEATH GOMES LIE A BOLT ,:s;, Elmer Hendrlcka I Called Homson Thursday Night. i V ' Coming with u suddenness that left tho family dazed and bewildered oven, as it will startle their many friend!) to rend of tho same, death entered the homo of Wllllan Henry nnd Entity Hendricks at 44 South Second East on Thursday night nnd laid hla ruthless hand on Elmer their 18-yeaa old ton. The family had Just finished the evening meal, and the elder girl, Enimn, had hastened off to attend nn.offloars meeting of ilia M,. I.,A, to the regular nieotln.; of which tho three younger children hnd announced announc-ed their Intention of going later. !!( questing his slscers to wait just a moment until no mnde some light rhiii.go In his appuvl, Elmer dualic; n',1 the stairs to hit) room. After wu!t-nig wu!t-nig a few momenta and fearing that itli,y would all bo Into If they ult?d lo.if,cr, tin girls uillcd to him 'to hurry. Hecolvlng no icsponso atjd thinking porhnp-j ho had failed to hear them. Florence 1C years old v. cut upstai:s and gently pushed open tl.a door of his room. To her horror and amnzojnent tho body of her broth' eiiy crumpled on the floor. With a. I cry of alnrm sho brought othor inom- j bors of tho family to tho scono' nnd I)r. II. K. Merrill and E. S. llud'grt i wore hastily summoned, but all to h'o purpose. Death had been swift and ; sure, heart fnlluio being tho lmnie !dlato cause of tho same. , The fntH.r and motliyr nnd the en tlro'fumily n.o fairly prostrated by the shock. Tho blcjw la doubly sovoro'Ji tlmtthls is tin." third ono of the children chil-dren to bo taken In this sudden manner, man-ner, two girls hrvlng prececded him Owing to tho fnct that tho fanlll)' lealded In Illchniond for many years, n doublo fi) n oral sorvl(', will bo held. Ono hcio In tho Sovonth ward ehap&l today at 4 o'clock, nnd another tit nithmond Sunday afternoon. Tbo sympathy of tho eiltlrc pvoplo )i both communities will go out to the family In tholr bercavcmcnL |