Obituary for Fred Richard

Poison for Rats Eaten in Error; Baker Dies

A short time after he accidentally ate rat poison in a Dallas bakery, Fred Richard, 50, of 4142 Cole, died in Baylor Hospital early Tuesday.

Relatives said the crew at the bakery got several tins of sardines to poison for rat bait. Although Mr Richard was aware that the sardines were to be poisoned, he did not think the poison had been applied and mistook the powder on top of the fish for cheese. He was hurried to Baylor Hospital.

Monsignor BH Diamond will conduct the funeral at the Sacred Heart Cathedral at 10am Wednesday. Edgar Beaver, Otto Drews, Clifford Clement, August Clement, Walter Clement, and August Mallett will be pallbearers at the burial in Calvary Hill Cemetery.

Mr Richard, a baker, had lived in Dallas intermittently for thirty years. He recently returned from Houston and San Antonio. He was a native of Louisiana. Survivors are his wife, Mrs Hazel Richard; three sons, Fred Richard Jr, John Richard and Harold Richard, all of Dallas; three sisters, Mrs Leo Clements of Jeanerette Louisiana, and Mrs Eda Spaeth and Mrs Elvige Campion of Dallas, and three brothers, O Richard and Simon Richard of Dallas and Numa Richard of Jeanerette Louisiana.

Dallas Morning News (Dallas, Texas); 1 March 1939.

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Obituary for Fred Richard; compiled by Pamela Hutchison Garrett for Family Stories at pamgarrett.com website; 2017.