SHELBY - STERLING NUMAN, the 8-year-old son of Mr. & Mrs. John Numan, living at the corner of Main and Leichty Avenue, died Sunday of blood poisoning, after an illness of two weeks. Some time ago he injured one of his knees while in the woodshed and the wound developed into the abscess which was operated by the doctors, but without result, as the poison in his system caused death. The case was probably aggravated by the extreme nervousness of the child, who, during his last days of life, was delirious and suffered from the repetition of recent experience. Some weeks ago he was in swimming and was kept in the water several hours by elder boys who threw sticks and stones at him, as he stated. During his illness he imagined that he was in the water again and that the boys were striking him with sticks and stones, and for several days his cries to be saved from their persecution was heard for a block around the Numan home.
The funeral will be held Tuesday at 10 o'clock at the residence, conducted by John Wilson of the M.E. Church. Interment at Oakland.
