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Detroit Free Press
Thursday, 11 Oct 1900


         Grand Rapids, Mich., October 10. - (Special) -
         MRS. GUSTAVE LEITELT, aged 32, wife of a furniture
       dealer, was fatally burned this noon while getting
       dinner for her husband. Nothing is known of the cause
       of it. She had two children, one a boy of 4 and the
       other a baby of 1 year. The boy was playing in the
       yard and just before noon neighbors saw MRS. LEITELT
       push the infant in its baby cab out of the back door
       upon a platform, where it was accustomed to stand on
       warm days. About fifteen minutes later the neighbors
       saw smoke issuing from the door, and running over
       found MRS. LEITELT lying upon the floor before a wood
       stove in a mass of smoke, her clothing all burned off,
       hair and eyebrows destroyed and flesh charred. She
       was unconscious by moaning faintly. A fire alarm was
       turned in but the blaze was extinguished before the
       department arrived, and just as the wagons were turn-
       ing away the husband arrived from the factory for
       dinner. He rushed into the house to find his wife
       swathed in cotton and unable to recognize him. The
       woman was taken to a hospital but died late this after-
       noon. It is believed that he clothing caught fire from
       the stove and she was unable to help herself.
       
       
       (Transriber Note: MARY LAURETTA LEITELT
        was born 13 January 1867 and is buried
        at Saint Andrews Catholic Cemetery,
        Grand Rapids, MI.)
        
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