Own Life Taken by Music Teacher

Camden Morning Post, October 20, 1933

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OWN LIFE TAKEN BY MUSIC TEACHER Miss Elizabeth M'Creight, 65, Found Dead in Home at 321 State Street

Camden Morning Post, October 20, 1933

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An elderly North Camden music teacher ended her life last night by gas. The teacher was Miss Elizabeth McCreight, 65, of 321 State street. Her body was found in the kitchen. Because Miss McCreight lived alone, police guarded the house during the night, after she had been discovered dead, when it was reported she owned many valuables. Detectives reported finding a chair upset directly in front of the kitchen gas stove, indicating, they said, Miss McCreight was overcome by the fumes and had fallen from the chair. The body was discovered after two boys, William K. Huff, 16, of 317 State street, and Dermott Dollar, 16, of 408 Cooper street, had smelled the odor of gas as they passed. Huff went to his home, directly across the street, and told his father, William K. Huff, Sr., who telephoned police. Detectives William Dolan and Leon Branch forced a rear window and

Camden Morning Post, October 20, 1933

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found the body on the floor of the gas filled kitchen. All gas jets of a cook stove were open. Coroner Arthur H. Holl was summoned and issued a certificate of death by suicide. Holl declared the woman had probably been dead for three or four days. Neighbors informed police the woman lived in the house alone and was a music teacher. Other information revealed she was an active social worker of the North Baptist Church, Linden street near Fourth street, and had not been seen since Sunday when she returned from church. Funeral services will be conducted Monday at 2 p.m. at the Holl Funeral Home, 1401 Princess avenue, by Rev. George H. Hemingway, former pastor of the First Presbyterian Church. The body will be on view tomorrow night at the Holl parlors. Interment will be on Tuesday in the family burial plot at Springfield, Ohio.

Miss Elizabeth M'Creight, 65, Found Dead in Home at 321 State Street

An elderly North Camden music teacher ended her life last night by gas.

The teacher was Miss Elizabeth McCreight, 65, of 321 State street. Her body was found in the kitchen.

Because Miss McCreight lived alone, police guarded the house during the night, after she had been discovered dead, when it was reported she owned many valuables.

Detectives reported finding a chair upset directly in front of the kitchen gas stove, indicating, they said, Miss McCreight was overcome by the fumes and had fallen from the chair.

The body was discovered after two boys, William K. Huff, 16, of 317 State street, and Dermott Dollar, 16, of 408 Cooper street, had smelled the odor of gas as they passed. Huff went to his home, directly across the street, and told his father, William K. Huff, Sr., who telephoned police.

Detectives William Dolan and Leon Branch forced a rear window and found the body on the floor of the gas filled kitchen. All gas jets of a cook stove were open. Coroner Arthur H. Holl was summoned and issued a certificate of death by suicide. Holl declared the woman had probably been dead for three or four days.

Neighbors informed police the woman lived in the house alone and was a music teacher. Other information revealed she was an active social worker of the North Baptist Church, Linden street near Fourth street, and had not been seen since Sunday when she returned from church.

Funeral services will be conducted Monday at 2 p.m. at the Holl Funeral Home, 1401 Princess avenue, by Rev. George H. Hemingway, former pastor of the First Presbyterian Church. The body will be on view tomorrow night at the Holl parlors. Interment will be on Tuesday in the family burial plot at Springfield, Ohio.