Sunday, August 6, 2023

Muncie, IN Obituary Lesson: Did he know when he said "I Do" how it would end? [1896]

To day if ye will hear His voice
harden not your hearts, as in the provocation. 
Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. 
For what is your life? It is even a vapor
that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away 
Hebrews 3:15/James 4:14
 
"Muncie, Ind., Dec 3
The news of the suicide of Charles Bayliss In the Avery Hotel, at
Mount Clemens, Mich. Wednesday, by shooting himself through the heart, was no surprise to
Muncie people, and is not the mystery here it seems to be there. 
He was a intelligent young man, and his wife was very beautiful and a society belle of Massillon, Ohio. He brought her to Muncie when he became superintendent of the Muncie street-railway. 
Her beauty attracted the attention of Muncie young men, and it was here that her affections for her husband were alienated, and three different times tragedies were narrowly averted when he found her late at night in the company of her admirers. 
He lost his position on this account, and went to Mount Clemens. When persuaded to leave the woman the man said he could not live without her.
Source: Indiana State Journal December 9, 1896."