On Sunday afternoon some of his neighbors found upon entering the shack occupied by James DeVall at the upper end of town, that he was lying in a house without fire, and apparently dying.

He was conveyed to the county jail where it was seen that his hands and feet were both badly frozen. He was given careful attention from six o'clock, when he was received, until the end came at one o'clock Monday morning.

Coroner Stanton held an inquest and the jury brought in the following verdict: That the said James H. DeVall came to death on the 29th day of January, 1912, at the county jail, in the town of Simcoe in the county of Norfolk, and that his death was caused by exposure through want of proper care.

The names of the jury are: H. A. Shaw, foreman; Lewis Barber, Oscar Clark, James Fidlin, Fred Cope, John Reed, John McCallum.

It seems strange that the jail is the only available palace of refuge for a person whose crime was only having been frozen in his own house. Even at that, we understand it was necessary to obtain a commitment for vagrancy. 

But it appears that this is a mere trifle compared with the red tape that has to be unwound in order to get a man admitted to the County Home. 

There should be some place, one would think, where cases of emergency could be handled as such.