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unaoie to iace tne reai iacw.Sr5TOUCHES DEAD HANDi 1OF ELIZA DOSS. I s?]ter^ I Negress Has a Carbuncle and Is lt! Willing to Tempt Fate to Get Rid to..sle*rof It—Invokes “Voodoo” Aid. , fluieI-LCgid1-d.jr!)tidr,lyreisy I An old superstition was set at de- j |10 fiance the other night when a negro j he woman touched the body of Eliza Doss, the old southern “mammy,” who froze to death in her little hut in the Kansas City bottoms last week.But there was a reason why the ne-gress was willing to touch the body.“Ah got a carbuncle on my neck,” she said to J. P. Frank, of the Frank-Seivers Undertaking Company, as she stepped into the office. “Them niggers down in the nawth end done said that if old Aunt Eliza would touch it,Ah would lose tfie pesterous thing.” Frank nearly collapsed. Who ever had heard of a negro touching a r- corpse ? But he acceeded to her re-se quest and allowed thf negress to take*e the lifeless hand of Aunt Eliza. She Jr shuddered a little, but she wanted to ss j.“git red of that carbunckle.”Aunt Eliza, had been more or less ?- j of a “voodoo” doctor among the ne-1- j groes, and she is said to have had “strange powers.” She lived in Joplin many years, coming here from lower Louisiana._ 1 V\____
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Joplin Morning Tribune
Joplin, Missouri, US
Wed, Jan 17, 1912
Page 9
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