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OBITUARIES
The Chanute Daily Tribune,
May 1, 1917
MISS PEARSON'S DEATH A MYSTERY
Coroner couldn't understand how she could shoot herself twice
The body of Miss Ester Pearson, who died last week in Kansas City of bullet wounds in the head, was brought here Sunday and taken to Vilas, where it was laid at rest beside those of her parents.
Miss Pearson was 30 years old. She made her home with her sister, Mrs. F.O. Erickson, at 56 Grandview Avenue, Kansas City, Kansas.
Tuesday afternoon Mrs. Erickson went to a drug store to get some ice cream. When she returned to her home she found Miss Pearson lying on the floor. An autopsy showed that two shots had been fired, and that two bullets had entered the head, one from each side.
Either wound would have caused death, and the coroner did not see how Miss Pearson could have moved the revolver from one side of the head to the other and fired both shots with the same hand, so he ordered an inquest. The death certificate stated the cause as suicide.
Mrs. Erickson told the police she knew of no reason why her sister should take her life. Although she had been ill, she was suffering no dangerous malady. The revolver was found beside her.
Miss Pearson was employed by the Emery-Bird-Thayer Dry Goods Company as a forewoman of salesgirls.
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OBITUARIES
The Chanute Daily Tribune,
May 1, 1917
MISS PEARSON'S DEATH A MYSTERY
Coroner couldn't understand how she could shoot herself twice
The body of Miss Ester Pearson, who died last week in Kansas City of bullet wounds in the head, was brought here Sunday and taken to Vilas, where it was laid at rest beside those of her parents.
Miss Pearson was 30 years old. She made her home with her sister, Mrs. F.O. Erickson, at 56 Grandview Avenue, Kansas City, Kansas.
Tuesday afternoon Mrs. Erickson went to a drug store to get some ice cream. When she returned to her home she found Miss Pearson lying on the floor. An autopsy showed that two shots had been fired, and that two bullets had entered the head, one from each side.
Either wound would have caused death, and the coroner did not see how Miss Pearson could have moved the revolver from one side of the head to the other and fired both shots with the same hand, so he ordered an inquest. The death certificate stated the cause as suicide.
Mrs. Erickson told the police she knew of no reason why her sister should take her life. Although she had been ill, she was suffering no dangerous malady. The revolver was found beside her.
Miss Pearson was employed by the Emery-Bird-Thayer Dry Goods Company as a forewoman of salesgirls.
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OBITUARIES
The Chanute Daily Tribune,
May 1, 1917
MISS PEARSON'S DEATH A MYSTERY
Coroner couldn't understand how she could shoot herself twice
The body of Miss Ester Pearson, who died last week in Kansas City of bullet wounds in the head, was brought here Sunday and taken to Vilas, where it was laid at rest beside those of her parents.
Miss Pearson was 30 years old. She made her home with her sister, Mrs. F.O. Erickson, at 56 Grandview Avenue, Kansas City, Kansas.
Tuesday afternoon Mrs. Erickson went to a drug store to get some ice cream. When she returned to her home she found Miss Pearson lying on the floor. An autopsy showed that two shots had been fired, and that two bullets had entered the head, one from each side.
Either wound would have caused death, and the coroner did not see how Miss Pearson could have moved the revolver from one side of the head to the other and fired both shots with the same hand, so he ordered an inquest. The death certificate stated the cause as suicide.
Mrs. Erickson told the police she knew of no reason why her sister should take her life. Although she had been ill, she was suffering no dangerous malady. The revolver was found beside her.
Miss Pearson was employed by the Emery-Bird-Thayer Dry Goods Company as a forewoman of salesgirls.
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OBITUARIES
The Chanute Daily Tribune,
May 1, 1917
MISS PEARSON'S DEATH A MYSTERY
Coroner couldn't understand how she could shoot herself twice
The body of Miss Ester Pearson, who died last week in Kansas City of bullet wounds in the head, was brought here Sunday and taken to Vilas, where it was laid at rest beside those of her parents.
Miss Pearson was 30 years old. She made her home with her sister, Mrs. F.O. Erickson, at 56 Grandview Avenue, Kansas City, Kansas.
Tuesday afternoon Mrs. Erickson went to a drug store to get some ice cream. When she returned to her home she found Miss Pearson lying on the floor. An autopsy showed that two shots had been fired, and that two bullets had entered the head, one from each side.
Either wound would have caused death, and the coroner did not see how Miss Pearson could have moved the revolver from one side of the head to the other and fired both shots with the same hand, so he ordered an inquest. The death certificate stated the cause as suicide.
Mrs. Erickson told the police she knew of no reason why her sister should take her life. Although she had been ill, she was suffering no dangerous malady. The revolver was found beside her.
Miss Pearson was employed by the Emery-Bird-Thayer Dry Goods Company as a forewoman of salesgirls.
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