HOWARD M. HUTCHINS, 47, whom police identified as the "faith healer" who was enjoined by the state eleven years ago from practicing medicine, was found dead at 11:10 a.m., Wednesday at his home at 21 North Seventeenth Street. Hutchins, who relatives said "had not been feeling good for sometime," had been outdoors and had gone back to his room to lie down. He was found dead by members of his family. Police were notified and rushed an intern from the Jennie Edmundson Memorial Hospital to the home. Dr. W.P. Hombach also called into the case said that Hutchins had been dead for about two hours.

Hutchins, who left his trade of stonecutter years ago to enter the healing field because he once related, he had power from god to heal the sick, is a native of Glenwood.

In 1930, while he lived on east Pierce Streets, patients arrived at his home in cars ranging from Model T's to limousines. He was permanently enjoined by a district court action from practicing medicine. Five years later, while practicing his faith healing in a suite of rooms at the Hotel Chieftain, he was charged with violating the 1930 court injunction and fined $50 and costs.

He is survived by his widow, Mary, of Pasadena, California; a son, Almie, who is with his mother; a daughter, Mrs. Arda Shoga of Galveston, Texas; his mother Mary MacDonald, with whom he lived; two sisters, Hazel Dambo of Council Bluffs and Grace Judy of Grand Island, Nebraska; three brothers, Henry of Tacoma, Washington, Sherman of Everett, Washington and George of Oregon.