This child baptized Oct. 22, 1899, at St. Peter's Lutheran Church, Columbus, Indiana.
The Evening Republican
Columbus, Indiana
Wed., February 12, 1902
Flora Gotsch, aged two and one-half years, daughter of Prof. and Mrs. Christian G. Gotsch, died suddenly Tuesday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock. Death resulted from strychnine poisoning.
The little girl together with her brother, aged five years, were playing at the home when she climbed upon a chair and secured a box of strychnine tablets which were secreted in a vase. The tablets were being used by Mrs. Gotsch, who is suffering from nervousness. The girl took the tablets and sat down behind the organ, where she commenced eating them. The little boy called to his mother that "Flora was eating her medicine," but before the parent got to the scene, the daughter had eaten about twelve of the tablets.
She was almost immediately seized with spasms and died at 3 :30 o'clock. Drs. Wood and Holder were called, but too late to save the girl.
The Evening Republican
Columbus, Indiana
Wed., February 12, 1902
Flora Gotsch, aged two and one-half years, daughter of Prof. and Mrs. Christian G. Gotsch, died suddenly Tuesday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock. Death resulted from strychnine poisoning.
The little girl together with her brother, aged five years, were playing at the home when she climbed upon a chair and secured a box of strychnine tablets which were secreted in a vase. The tablets were being used by Mrs. Gotsch, who is suffering from nervousness. The girl took the tablets and sat down behind the organ, where she commenced eating them. The little boy called to his mother that "Flora was eating her medicine," but before the parent got to the scene, the daughter had eaten about twelve of the tablets.
She was almost immediately seized with spasms and died at 3 :30 o'clock. Drs. Wood and Holder were called, but too late to save the girl.
This child baptized Oct. 22, 1899, at St. Peter's Lutheran Church, Columbus, Indiana.
The Evening Republican
Columbus, Indiana
Wed., February 12, 1902
Flora Gotsch, aged two and one-half years, daughter of Prof. and Mrs. Christian G. Gotsch, died suddenly Tuesday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock. Death resulted from strychnine poisoning.
The little girl together with her brother, aged five years, were playing at the home when she climbed upon a chair and secured a box of strychnine tablets which were secreted in a vase. The tablets were being used by Mrs. Gotsch, who is suffering from nervousness. The girl took the tablets and sat down behind the organ, where she commenced eating them. The little boy called to his mother that "Flora was eating her medicine," but before the parent got to the scene, the daughter had eaten about twelve of the tablets.
She was almost immediately seized with spasms and died at 3 :30 o'clock. Drs. Wood and Holder were called, but too late to save the girl.
The Evening Republican
Columbus, Indiana
Wed., February 12, 1902
Flora Gotsch, aged two and one-half years, daughter of Prof. and Mrs. Christian G. Gotsch, died suddenly Tuesday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock. Death resulted from strychnine poisoning.
The little girl together with her brother, aged five years, were playing at the home when she climbed upon a chair and secured a box of strychnine tablets which were secreted in a vase. The tablets were being used by Mrs. Gotsch, who is suffering from nervousness. The girl took the tablets and sat down behind the organ, where she commenced eating them. The little boy called to his mother that "Flora was eating her medicine," but before the parent got to the scene, the daughter had eaten about twelve of the tablets.
She was almost immediately seized with spasms and died at 3 :30 o'clock. Drs. Wood and Holder were called, but too late to save the girl.
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