The Oklahoman
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
October 25, 1907
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Pin Caused Quick Death

Girl Picks Slight Eruption And Dies In One Week

Because of septic poisoning developing from a pin scratch received one week before, Cressa Guthrie, aged 17 years, and a student of the Lincoln school, died at 4 o'clock yesterday morning at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Guthrie, 620 Kansas avenue. The body was buried twelve hours later in Fairlawn cemetery, following funeral services at the residence, conducted by the Rev. Forrest Maddox, pastor of the Immanuel Baptist church, of which congregation she was a member.

On Friday of last week Miss Guthrie opened a small skin eruption on her upper lip with a pin. The wound caused by the incision of the pin bled for a short time.

She attended school on Monday morning as usual, but pain from the wound became to intense that she asked to be excused at noon. From that time the suffering of the patient increased until it resulted in her death.