Gonzales Inquirer Feb. 16, 1899
Wentworth Dual Sorrow
Baby Dies and Wife Expires From Poison Given in Mistake for Medicine
Floresville, Tex., Feb. 11. -On Monday, the 6th inst., at 4 o'clock a.m., there was born to Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Wentworth, a baby boy. The infant lived but twenty-four hours and was buried on Tuesday evening. When Mr. Wentworth returned about sundown from burying his little son, a neighbor woman was in the room with his wife. On inquiry his wife answered that she was feeling very well and she thought it was time to take the cough medicine.
The lady attending turned to the table where the medicines were and poured out from the bottle prescribed as liniment, a deadly poison, belladona, a full teaspoonful and gave it to Mrs. Wentworth.
The mistake was soon discovered, Dr. J. V. Blake was immediately sent for, but all the untiring efforts through the night and the next day proved unavailing, Mrs. Wentworth living by=t 24 hours after the fatal dose was given.
The surrounding circumstances make this one of the saddest misfortunes that has happened in this neighborhood.
On Friday, the 10th inst., she was buried by the side of her baby boy.
Playmates of her girlhood home in Missouri 35 years ago, Mrs. Saxton and Mrs. McBee, living near Lavernia, attended the funeral.
This sad bereavement of the family was lightened by the loving actions and kind words of friends and neighbors.
Wentworth Dual Sorrow
Baby Dies and Wife Expires From Poison Given in Mistake for Medicine
Floresville, Tex., Feb. 11. -On Monday, the 6th inst., at 4 o'clock a.m., there was born to Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Wentworth, a baby boy. The infant lived but twenty-four hours and was buried on Tuesday evening. When Mr. Wentworth returned about sundown from burying his little son, a neighbor woman was in the room with his wife. On inquiry his wife answered that she was feeling very well and she thought it was time to take the cough medicine.
The lady attending turned to the table where the medicines were and poured out from the bottle prescribed as liniment, a deadly poison, belladona, a full teaspoonful and gave it to Mrs. Wentworth.
The mistake was soon discovered, Dr. J. V. Blake was immediately sent for, but all the untiring efforts through the night and the next day proved unavailing, Mrs. Wentworth living by=t 24 hours after the fatal dose was given.
The surrounding circumstances make this one of the saddest misfortunes that has happened in this neighborhood.
On Friday, the 10th inst., she was buried by the side of her baby boy.
Playmates of her girlhood home in Missouri 35 years ago, Mrs. Saxton and Mrs. McBee, living near Lavernia, attended the funeral.
This sad bereavement of the family was lightened by the loving actions and kind words of friends and neighbors.
Gonzales Inquirer Feb. 16, 1899
Wentworth Dual Sorrow
Baby Dies and Wife Expires From Poison Given in Mistake for Medicine
Floresville, Tex., Feb. 11. -On Monday, the 6th inst., at 4 o'clock a.m., there was born to Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Wentworth, a baby boy. The infant lived but twenty-four hours and was buried on Tuesday evening. When Mr. Wentworth returned about sundown from burying his little son, a neighbor woman was in the room with his wife. On inquiry his wife answered that she was feeling very well and she thought it was time to take the cough medicine.
The lady attending turned to the table where the medicines were and poured out from the bottle prescribed as liniment, a deadly poison, belladona, a full teaspoonful and gave it to Mrs. Wentworth.
The mistake was soon discovered, Dr. J. V. Blake was immediately sent for, but all the untiring efforts through the night and the next day proved unavailing, Mrs. Wentworth living by=t 24 hours after the fatal dose was given.
The surrounding circumstances make this one of the saddest misfortunes that has happened in this neighborhood.
On Friday, the 10th inst., she was buried by the side of her baby boy.
Playmates of her girlhood home in Missouri 35 years ago, Mrs. Saxton and Mrs. McBee, living near Lavernia, attended the funeral.
This sad bereavement of the family was lightened by the loving actions and kind words of friends and neighbors.
Wentworth Dual Sorrow
Baby Dies and Wife Expires From Poison Given in Mistake for Medicine
Floresville, Tex., Feb. 11. -On Monday, the 6th inst., at 4 o'clock a.m., there was born to Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Wentworth, a baby boy. The infant lived but twenty-four hours and was buried on Tuesday evening. When Mr. Wentworth returned about sundown from burying his little son, a neighbor woman was in the room with his wife. On inquiry his wife answered that she was feeling very well and she thought it was time to take the cough medicine.
The lady attending turned to the table where the medicines were and poured out from the bottle prescribed as liniment, a deadly poison, belladona, a full teaspoonful and gave it to Mrs. Wentworth.
The mistake was soon discovered, Dr. J. V. Blake was immediately sent for, but all the untiring efforts through the night and the next day proved unavailing, Mrs. Wentworth living by=t 24 hours after the fatal dose was given.
The surrounding circumstances make this one of the saddest misfortunes that has happened in this neighborhood.
On Friday, the 10th inst., she was buried by the side of her baby boy.
Playmates of her girlhood home in Missouri 35 years ago, Mrs. Saxton and Mrs. McBee, living near Lavernia, attended the funeral.
This sad bereavement of the family was lightened by the loving actions and kind words of friends and neighbors.
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