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The Mt. Adams Sun, Bingen, WA., September 14, 1945, page 1

INDIAN WOMAN FOUND DEAD IN AUTO

Ellen Sconowah Heath, 27, former welder from the Oregon Shipyard, Portland and member of the Klickitat Indian tribe whose childhood home was at Wiakicus, Wash., was found dead early Sunday in a car that had left the road at the Richeldolpher corner, 2½ miles south of Glenwood. Highway patrolmen and Deputy Sheriff John Splawn took into custody two Mexican men found at the scene of the accident. The men are being held for investigation by the Klickitat county sheriff, called by Fank Leaton, Glenwood stockman who discovered the accidental and reported Mrs. Heath's death to her mother, Mrs. Lois Spino, Glenwood. Gardner's Funeral Home, White Salmon was in charge of the body. Interment was at High Prairie, near Centerville, Wash.
Mrs. Heath was the mother of three small children whom she supported by working as a welder when not otherwise employed as an expert craftswoman of the native Indian bead work.
Sheriff's officials said her death may have occurred prior to the time of the accident. One theory was that she had died from carbon Monoxide poisoning caused by the car while attempts were being made to get out of the ditch where it had stopped.

The Enterprise, White Salmon, WA., September 14, 1945, page 1

FORMER SHIPYARD WELDER KILLED. FOUND IN AUTO
Two Mexicans, At Scene of Accident, Are Being Held By County Officials

GLENWOOD, September 11 - Ellen Sconowah Heath, 27, former welder from the Oregon Shipyard, Portland and member of the Klickitat tribe whose childhood home was at Wiakicus, Washington, was found killed early Sunday in a car that had left the road at the Richeldolpher corner, 2½ miles south of here. Highway patrolmen and Deputy Sheriff John Splawn took into custody two Mexican men found at the scene of the accident. The men are being held for investigation by the Klickitat county sheriff, called by Fank Leaton, Glenwood stockman who discovered the accidental and reported Mrs. Heath's death to her mother, Mrs. Lois Spino, Glenwood. Gardner's Funeral Home, White Salmon was in charge of the body. Interment was at High Prairie, near Centerville, Washington.
Mrs. Heath was the mother of three small children whom she supported by working as a welder when not otherwise employed as an expert craftswoman of the native Indian bead work.
Sheriff's officials said her death may have occurred prior to the time of the accident. She is survived in addition to her children and her mother by her stepfather, Roy Spino, two of brothers Ernest and Eddie Sconawah, Glenwood and Celilo; and two sisters, Eva, Major Creek and Mary, Portland, and eight half brothers and sisters living in Glenwood.