Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell
THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Eighteenth Year - Number 18
Marlin, Texas, Thursday, June 27, 1907
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W. J. Sims Dropped Dead.
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Texarkana, Texas, June 21.--A well dressed stranger, a very fine looking man,
aged about 40, fell dead at the union depot while waiting for a train at 3:30
o'clock yesterday evening. He had been walking back and forth on the
platform for several minutes, when he suddenly sank to the floor. He was
unconscious when picked up a minute later and was dead in less than five minutes
after falling. Dr. Kosminski arrived just before he breathed his
last, and after examining the body gave heart trouble as the cause of death.
Papers on the deceased and marks on the clothing showed him to be W. J. Sims,
superintendent of public schools at Cameron, Texas. In his pocket was also
a through ticket to Buffalo, New York, and other papers showed him to be a
Knight of Pythias. Telegrams were sent to his family and to the Knights of
Pythias lodge at Cameron. The coroner viewed the remains, but announced
that an inquest was unecessary.
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Mr. S(i)ms was quite well known in Marl(in) having made several visits to the
city in the last few years. He was a prominent educator of the state and had
filled several (sup)intendenties, the last one (missing) in Cameron where he had
(missing) for five years.
He (missing) Cameron for Honey Grove to
visit his wife before going north to attend a summer school. Thursday
morning he departed for Texarkana where he died while waiting for a train.
During the summer vacations for several
years he had been studying at Ann Arbor, the University of Michigan, and would
have completed his course this session.
The remains were shipped to Batesville,
Ark., his old where both parents live and where interment took place.
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