C. L. LATIMER'S DEATH.

His Relatives Suspect Foul Play, but Circumstance Point to an Accident.

Relatives of C. L. Latimer, a stockman of Marshall, Mo., who died at the Coe sanitarium recently, have asked the police to investigate the circumstances leading up to the injuries received by Latimer in Kansas City, which are thought to have resulted in his death.   They suspect foul play.

A careful investigation by the police, however, dispels this theory.   Patrolman Nichols found Latimer at Twelfth and Walnut streets early on the morning of January 23.   He was hatless and was bleeding from several wounds on his face.   He claimed he had fallen down and hurt himself.

Patrolman Nichols called the wagon and Latimer was sent to the police headquarters, where he was locked in a cell until he became sober, when his wounds were dressed by Police Surgeon Longan.   The injuries were described by Dr Longan as a laceration over the left eye and contusions on the nose.

About noon J. H. Casebolt of 1117 McGee street with whom Latimer had been living, called at the station and took him to the sanitarium.   He died there a week later.

Mr. Casebolt told the police that Latimer had been drinking and had wandered away from his boarding house on the morning he was injured.   He thought his injuries were due to a fall.   So do the police, as Latimer was not seriously enough hurt to have been slugged.   He bad not been robbed.

Dr. Coe of the sanitarium where Latimer died, reported his death as due to a fracture of the skull.   Dr. Longan says there was no presence of fracture when he treated Latimer.   He believes from what Latimer told him the day after he had been injured, that he had fallen the stairs in leaving Casebolt's house.   Latimer was 55 years old and had come to Kansas City to be treated at Coe's sanitarium.

It is required by law that the coroner must be notified of the death of any patient in a hospital or sanitarium where it is believed that death was due to violence.   Dr. Coe did not report the death of Latimer to the coroner, but did report his death to the health department.   Coroner Lester said that he would probably investigate the case if the relatives of the deceased him to do it.   The body was buried in Saline county some time ago. -- K. C. Star.

Mrs. Susan Allen.