Dickey, Mrs. Pike died 1902

DICKEY

Posted By: Reid R. Johnson (email)
Date: 9/8/2013 at 19:03:34

Elgin Echo, Thursday, 23 January 1902.

One day last week the people of Lansing were horrified by the finding of the dead body of Mrs. Pike Dickey in her hovel of a home in that town. The discovery was made by a neighbor woman who called there and finding the door locked peered through the glass. She at once gave the alarm and some men forced in the door to find suspicions only too true. The body lay on its back, at full length on the floor, and had evidently fallen from a low rocking chair where she had sat preparatory to retiring, as the bed was undisturbed. The remains were badly disfigured by rats, the tip of the nose, the lobes of both ears and the ends of several fingers being gone and quite a hole eaten in one cheek. The old women was not destitute as several large sums of money were found about the shack, besides a good deposit to her credit at the bank. She seems to have been a person of eccentric character and a miser.

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