CALEY, John

CALEY, LAWLER

Posted By: Nettie Mae (email)
Date: 5/23/2021 at 17:43:30

From The Clinton Age, Feb. 18, 1870, Page 5

A TERRIBLE DEATH -- Last Wednesday night, as Mr. John Lawler and his son-in-law, John Caley, of Washington township, were coming from Lyons with a wagon load of lumber, in the darkness where the road neared the creek, some six miles east of De Witt, the wagon ran off the bank, upsetting and throwing the lumber on Caley. Mr. Lawler is quite aged, and being a little worse for liquor, we are told, he could not call the needed help. So the man was allowed to remain under the lumber, and partially in the water until help came in the morning. Caley was taken out alive, with one arm frozen to the shoulder, but he soon died from the effects of the injuries and the exposure--probably more from the latter than the former. -- De Witt Observer.