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The Mattoon Gasser: Victims and Locations

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Coles County

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Date of attack

Victim(s)

Location

“A few months ago”

Olive Brown

Miss Crissie

208 N. 22nd St.

Thursday, August 31

Mr. Urban Reef

Mrs. Urban Reef

1817 Grant Ave. (location estimated on map)

Friday, September 1

Mrs. Bert Kearney

Dorothy Ellen Kearney

1408 Marshall Ave. Prowler seen: dark clothing, tight fitting cap

Friday, September 1

Mrs. Charles Rider

Ann Marie Rider

Joe Rider

2508 Prairie Ave.

Friday, September 1

Unnamed woman and her children

unreported location

Tuesday, September 5

Mrs. Carl Cordes

921 N. 21st St. (location estimated on map)

Cloth, skeleton key, lipstick found

Tuesday, September 5

Mrs. Leonard Burrell

809 N. 13th St.

Wednesday, September 6

Mrs. Laura Junken

821 Richmond Ave.

Wednesday, September 6

Mrs. Ardell Spangle

821 N. 15th St. (location estimated on map)

Wednesday, September 6

Fred Goble

witness saw tall thin man running from yard

Wednesday, September 6

Glenda Hendershott

612 S. 14th St.

 

Wednesday, September 6

Daniel Spohn

801 N. 19th St. (location estimated on map)

Wednesday, September 6

Mrs. Cordie Taylor

617 Charleston Ave.

Wednesday, September 6

Miss Frances Smith

Miss Maxine Smith

2100 Moultrie Ave.

Thursday, September 7

Miss Frances Smith

Miss Maxine Smith

2100 Moultrie Ave. (3 attacks)

saw thin blue smoke-like vapor; heard buzzing sound

Friday September 8 / Saturday, September 9

C.W. Driskell residence

2320 DeWitt Ave.

Saturday, September 9

Mrs. Genevieve Haskell

Grayson Wayne Haskell

Mrs. Russell Bailey

Miss Katherine Tuzzo

17 Westwood (not located on map – NW edge of city)

Saturday, September 9

Mrs. Lucy Stephens

Jimmy Hardin

521 N. 32nd St.

Sunday, September 10

unnamed woman

2300 Champaign Ave.

Sunday, September 10

unnamed woman

600 block of Moultrie Ave.

Sunday, September 10

Miss Frances Smith

Miss Maxine Smith

2100 Moultrie Ave.

 

 

Plant “blamed” for “gasser’s” fumes

Tuesday, September 12, 1944

(On page four)

 

Atlas Imperial Diesel Engine Company Plant

14th St. and Broadway

 

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Common Symptoms

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