Found Dead in Bed
Jack Puckett, a middle age man, who has been at work in the cotton fields around Cone and Lorenzo since last fall, was found dead in bed at the Hinson hotel in Ralls yesterday morning.
He came to Ralls on the train the evening before from Lorenzo and was in apparent good health, but spoke that night of feeling badly. When he failed to show up for breakfast the proprietor of the hotel went to his room to investigate and found him dead, but his body was yet warm, showing he had died only a short time before. Local physicians examined him immediately and pronounced his sudden taking away due to heart failure.
County Judge Pink L. Parrish, accompanied by Sheriff Mitchell, County Clerk Edgar Allen and Attorney R. A. Wallace, went to Ralls to hold an inquest over the body, and a verdict was rendered that his death was due to heart failure. The officers phoned and telegraphed to a number of places to try to get in communication with some of his people so they would know how to dispose of his body, but without success.
No money was found on his person, neither was any scrap of paper or anything else found that would throw light on the history of his life or where he lived, but it is thought his home was somewhere in New Mexico.
His remains were interred in the cemetery in Ralls at the expense of the county, the officials in charge seeing that he received a decent burial in every respect.
The Crosbyton Review, Friday, February 4, 1916
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