Miami Union

February 23, 1878

DEUBLER, CHARLES - Mr. Charles Deubler was buried Sunday afternoon from the Main St. German English Church. The Fire Department and firemen's band attended his funeral.

 

Miami Union

February 23, 1878

DEUBLER, CHARLES - THE DEATH OF CHARLES DEUBLER - Result of the Post Mortem Examination and Coroner's Inquest - For some reason the death of Mr. Chas. Deubler, which occurred Thursday night of last week, gave rise to rumors that he had been fouly dealt with by members of his own family, whereupon the wife of the deceased sent for the physician who had attended her husband during his last illness, Dr. T. M. Wright, and consulted him in regard as to what had best be done. It was decided to have a post mortem examination immediately, before the body had decayed in the least, to remove every ground of suspicion. Accordingly Saturday afternoon, Drs. H. Coleman, J. A. Sterrett, and T. M. Wright made the examination and discovered no indications of the deceased having been poisoned. The stomach was removed and, in the presence of witnesses, sealed up and delivered to the Sheriff for safe keeping, so that it could be subjected to a thorough analysis in the future if circumstances arose which made it necessary. In the meantime, however, it seems that some party or parties in Troy, had communicated, by letter, these rumors to the officers of the Urbana Mutual Benefit Association, in which the deceased was insured in the $5,000 class. Mr. J. F. Shumate, President of this association, telegraphed Coroner Kitzmiller Saturday demanding that an inquest be held and a thorough examination made to ascertain if there were any true grounds for these rumors. Coroner Kitzmiller came to Troy Sunday morning, impaneled a jury, consisting of Messrs. James Nesbitt, Joel T. Thomson, F. M. Sterrett, L. J. Rollin, S. Shannon, and Jesse Shilling, and held an inquest over the body of the deceased. Seven witnesses were examined, including those who had administered to the deceased during his last illness, but nothing was elicited showing a cause of death from poison and the verdict of the jury was that the "deceased came to his death from the disease commonly known as typhus fever".

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