Show opal nick nickell dies did the from ft a recent issue of fl a butia montana paper per which gives an account ot of the distressing death I 1 opal 4 four year cearold ye arold oid daughter r and amral ml si JW nickell formerly of this city mrs nickell being formerly may colllns collins sister of miss alias susie colllns collins ot of this kotyo liking the taste cisore or some sugar coated pink cathartic fan I 1 t jr 4 bottle on a diesser it at herb her hoac dy y her uncle tour year I 1 old opal nickell daughter of mr and mrs john W alc ell 01 kemper avenue ate approximately fifteen of them and cled halt half an hour later an A n examination exam of the pills by physicians 1 aTt after erthe the childs death de ath revealed that each of them had bad contained onest one st sixtieth of a grain of strychnine doctors stated eight of them would have caused the girls death but bait jt jk was believed she had swallowed fifteen while her mother was waa busy with her housework yesterday afternoon opal wandered into a bedroom occupied sunday by her uncle alvin alvan nickell spying bottle of pink billson pil lson the dresser the child bookout too took kout out the stopper and ate a pin pil clifio It tasted like candy she then ate one after ano therb swallowing approximately lina tely fifteen of them before her sweet tooth has been satisfied sh she then returned to the kitchen where her mother was at work the child had wiped her sticky mouth and hands and i dress and arsi nickell noticing the soiled condition of the garment which had been spotless b before the child had gone into the bedroom asked of opals opal i what have you been eating pills responded the girl as she walked to grasp an empty apple box which her mother previously had given her permission to take into the yard to play W with ith mrs nickell not realizing that the he pills had contained inne asked her ler daughter where she had got them without an answering her mother opal walked into the bedroom and point pointed to the bottle containing th the few remaining pills the pills were in brown colored bottle marked health 0 bearing a label which gave the pie ingredients of the tablets no poison label wason the bottle and not noticing the small notation about Inne thought nothing of her daughter having eaten the pills and nd resumed liar her household tasks op opal al resumed the struggle to dr agthe apple yard but being unable to move it waif wa advised by her mother to leave it alone unell her brother paul should return return the girl then ii walked out the back door and on kes reaching ching the ane yard fell elt tace face downward thinking the child had stumbled and continued to lie on the ground temporarily pora rily too indolent to arise the mother commanded her to get up 1 T I cant the child responded as mrs nickell nickel rushed into the yard and lifted her h e r i in n h her er si arms r m 9 the n i e breit mother h er brg began a n tn talking 1 k in g to t 0 the t h e child e h ij d but b u t seeing n S her h tace e ace ana a be coming becoming discolored slid and that the she was losing consciousness mrs nickell rushed into the house and placed the baby on a bed and then th ten notified neighbors to tele phone a doctor not thinking that the pills were in any way harmful mrs mr nickell could not was wrong with her daughter fir dr donald K worden warden ot of murray hospital arrived within w athin a few minutes and quickly adm administered administer iniste red antidotes to the girl but as she was already near death hw his efforts to sive her proved futile butil litt 3 30 p rn 10 min futile butil litt 3 30 p rn min ute sutter the doctor riso had arri arrived the the pills which the PIC eaten and announced they had bad caused her herl death deith mrs nickell became hysterical when the succumbed but kindar neighbors were consoling her last night i the puls wire were purchased by Alvin Nickell brother ot of the girls rather father who had visited for foi a few days at the nickell home the label stated that tone brie 01 two pills were sufficient for ati an a dult adult dose alvin nickell left sunday with opals father tor idaho to tol visit their mother the girls father was notified by telephone of his daughters death last evening ind Is 19 expected to arrive in butte this the alic bittle and the remaining pink pills are arenow now ih ift the custody of coroner rate pat holland Hol laed ho hb win conduct t an in ini quest into the childs death at i this after afternoon noo n opals body Is at sherman reeds rh chapel apeland and arrangements tor for her funeral will no not t be completed until the i arrival of her father besides her parents the girl leaves two sisters elsie and dove dave nickell and a brother paul all of butte |