"The Kansas City Daily Times" (Missouri) Sunday, January 27, 1884 THE VALLEY CITIES. WYANDOTTE. HEART DISEASE. The following communication relating to the mysterious death of Mrs. HARTMAN was handed us for publication yesterday. "The children of Mrs. HARTMAN, deceased, desired to have a coroner's inquest or post-mortem examination. The coroner accordingly summoned a jury, they all looked at the battered up face of the deceased, and came to the conclusion that she must have died from heart-disease, directly or indirectly. Every one who read that verdict must have been astonished. The children and relatives of the deceased would have to place before the public the following fact so they may make their own verdict without having the pleasure of being experts. "Our mother never had heart disease in her life. When she was found on the floor both the cavities of her eyes were black -- a thing that could not happen by falling to the floor. A place on her arm, between elbow and shoulder, was black, also a black spot in the region of her stomach; neither of these injuries could she have obtained by a fall. A portion of her clothes were torn from her body, and when she saw men in the room she seemed to be more frightened than when women were in, proving that she was roughly dealt with by some villain or villains. She had a new pocketbook with some $6 in it. This was taken from her person, and small coins were scattered on the floor in the tussle and hurry. The fact that she never after obtained consciousness proves clearly and beyond a shadow of doubt that her brain was affected, that a contusion of said organ had taken place, and that from said contusion she died. How a person with heart disease looses consciousness is for experts to tell. The conviction of every man is that our mother died from blows received from her murderer or murderers. This much the children of the deceased wish to place before the public in order to prosecute according to law the perpetrators of that foul act if ever they shall be discovered. ======================================================