Helen Van Winkle

VAN WINKLE

Posted By: Sue R. (email)
Date: 3/25/2015 at 00:35:22

Ottumwa tri-weekly courier, October 04, 1910

EATS 19 MATCHES DIES.
Helen Van Winkle of Salem Iowa
Lived Two Days After Swal-
lowing Poison.
Salem. Oct. 1.--Little Helen Van
Winkle, the two-year-old daughter of
Dr. and Mrs. C. O. Van Winkle of this
place, died yesterday as the result of
eating the heads of off about nineteen
culphur matches. She swallowed the
poisonous heads of the matches some-
time Tuesday morng, but her parents
knew nothing about it at the time, and
it was not until along towards evening
that she complained of being sick.