Howland

Obit for Charles E. Howland, Denver Post October 13, 1907, Pp. 1, 3.
Dying doctor leaps forty feet from Hospital window and breaks neck.
Tries to escape in Delirium.
Dr. C. E. Howland of Seibert meets an awful end.
Made rope of towels.
Too feeble to hold on and fell forty feet. Dead when found.
A heart-rending shriek, fraught with the imminent death, followed by a thud aroused the nurses at St. Joseph's hospital yesterday afternoon about 4:15 o'clock and when they went to learn the cause of the cry they found a man clothed only in his night robe lying dead on the ground where he had fallen from a third story window. The patient was Dr. C. B. Howland of Seibert, Colorado, who had arrived only yesterday morning at the institution as a consumptive patient. Upon investigation it was found that he had knotted together the several pieces of bedclothes, which were in his room and made a rope of them, attempting to reach the ground by sliding down their length. What was the motive for this unusual procedure cannot be ascertained and the nurses and sisters at the hospital know little about the accident. After an investigation by the coroner it was found that death must have been instantaneous as the fall was fully forty feet from the third story and Dr. Howland alighted upon his head, fracturing the base of his skull and also breaking his neck. The rope of bedclothes was only long enough to reach a story and a half and it is likely that his strength was exhausted before had gone very far, for when he arrived he was weak and had to be placed in bed immediately.
One of the physicians at the hospital stated that Dr. Howland was very nervous but as to the condition of his mind regarding sanity he did not feel he was in a position to make a positive statement. Dr. Howland's sister and daughter accompanied him to this city and were with him during the morning at the hospital they were greatly worried over his condition. He was middle aged, of medium height and of light complexion. Evidently he was at one time a man of much physical strength, thought at the time of his death his person was emaciated by disease. Dr. H. T. Pershing of 1169 Race Street called on Dr. Howland Saturday morning at the hospital where he had been sent at the patient's express wish, as he had been told of him by a friend. After examining Dr. Howland he found that he was in a very serious stage of consumption and so weak that he could scarcely walk. "As I left the private room he occupied," said Dr. Pershing , "Dr. Howland's sister came into the hall with me and, referring to a part of the conversation we had had regarding his once being addicted to the morphine habit, told me that he still was subject to hallucinations and delirium while he had been taking treatment for the insidious habit and was materially improved, he was yet far from being free of the drug's effects. The fact that he was a man who might injure himself by imagining an attack or anything else that would make him attempt such a thing as an escape, through a third story window of the hospital was not known to those at the institution. It was such an attack I feel sure, that caused him to make the attempt and his weak condition forced him to lose his hold on the improvised rope and fall to his death.
(Note: His sister was Nea Mata F. Howland-Kelso and the daughter was Marian Coloma Kelso. Marian C. Kelso married Francis Rolland Rose two years later in Denver, CO.)
In 1900 Lincoln County, Oklahoma, Willis D. Kelso is 37, Indiana, Matie F. 35 Wisconsin, with Marian C. 13 Missouri, Lee 111, Kansas, GUy B. 7 Iowa, Robert D. 5, Iowa, Mabel C. 3 Iowa, and Willis D. 1, Oklahoma.

One tree said "Marian Coloma Kelso was born on 15 January 1887 in Clay Co., Missouri.
She married Francis Rolland Rose, son of George Willis Rose and Susan Henrietta Street, on 26 December 1909 in Denver, Denver Co., Colorado.
Marian died on 25 March 1966 in Seattle, King Co., Washington, at age 79."
FindaGrave # 85621658 has NeaMata F. "Mattie" Kelso 1865-1948 buried in King County, Washington.

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