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'ei’iir3Called to^HospItal.awakened^'by *my sister-lmlaw, who said*; ‘Beatrice, the telephone is tring-' ing.* I went-down and answered it; Harold Brooks was talking, he said ‘Otto has been hurt and is at the hospital. I will come and get you as soon as I pan and take you to the hospital;* The first person I .met at the hbspitalwhs i)r. TrPutmari.^ Labked him. howbad Otto was. injured. ' He told me he believed he had, sustained a mortal wound, but that he couldn’t tell-until he had examined him on the operating table. We ;then went ip. Otto’s robin. He was conscious. -: He told me his conscience was clear. ‘I haven’t any regrets/ he told *me. *1 did it for a friend. I am going to die game and I am going to die with a smile.-. He spoke to nje of his business. He told me he wanted to be given a Masonic funeral. He asked, me wherjdhe’ shoTad-be^buited^the mausoleimi of in his parents’ lot. I said to hinx if it combsto the worst, you make ihe choice. He said, ‘bury-me in father's lot.* 'He then said, ‘kiss me goodbye for they are going to operate/ That was the?last I saw of Otto until after he had bepn.operated upon. I was sitting at his bedside when he came put from under thePhhesthetic. • He said to me ‘was the operation successful?’ I said to him he must wait and see. He continued, to talk and said ‘I am happy. I haven’tidone anything that 1 regreL I’ll die game^and .with a smile.’st5i-Conscious to Last.“Otto suffered /greatly and continu-ti-Iita:edosI.yitaePLdftu%ally asked for hypodermics to.kill the pain/ He was conscious np to withip an hour-'ot bis death. He- recognized all-who came ip. He ,spoke; of different incidents. He talked of the ball game. He talked with Mrs. Cott Barnett and said toVher,. ‘Grace I havejonly one regret;' and Hint is that wecan't eat ^anksgiving dinner .together as we had planned.' He recognized me at all times. .He'told me not to worry, PndMf ISneeded1 any assistance call on Jim or Tony, and they would help me. He - often asked for hypo-dermicsl He app‘eared to* fear he wopld go into; convulsions and he didn’t want to give ns any worry. He.saidrnothing to me about the incidents at the ;thne of the;^ootin^ «cept to say 'fhe shots seemed to come from a' machine.Dr. Hetherington took the dying staie-uieht pCQtto. W*. had kpowledge^ofthe bIalt;aiih^^plQt^as early as the firstSunday to August*:.,-Mt: Cdnfler toot _ been/l^ed iromJt/2
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Logansport Daily Tribune
Logansport, Indiana, US
Wed, Oct 15, 1919
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