Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 159, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1919 — YOUNG WIFE SHOOTS HERSELF [ARTICLE]

YOUNG WIFE SHOOTS HERSELF

MRS. GLEN OBERLEY ATTEMPTED SUICIDE MONDAY AFTERNOON. Mrs. Oberley, the 19-year-old wife of Glen Oberley, attempted suicide. Monday afternoon at her home in the northern pant of this city. / The deed was committed about 3:30 o’clock in the afternoon. The young wife and her mother-in-law, who is an invalid, were in the house. Mrs. Oberley secured a revolver which her brother had brought back with him from overseas, walked to the window and pointing the gun at her breast pulled the trigger. The bullet passed entirely through her body just above and a little to the left of her heart. The shot was heard by neighbors, who rushed to the Oberley home. A physician was summoned and after working with the unfortunate woman the Worland ambulance was called and she was taken to the hospital, where she is hovering between life and death with about one chance in forty to recover. Since committing the act, Mrs. Oberley has been conscious and is very anxious to live. It is difficult to account for the act, but domestic trouble seems to have been the cause. It is reported that she had been away from her home for a feiw weeks and had just returned. In the home with the husband and wife lives Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Smith. Mrs. Smith is Mr. Oberley’s mother. She has been an invalid for many years. It is reported that Mrs. Oberley wanted her husband to move into a home ■of their own. Just how serious this disagreement was is not easy to ascertain. Mrs. Oberley is reported to have been sopiewhat nervous and of a peculiar disposition. The infelicity of the tome seems not to have been such as would ordinarily cause one to attempt so rash a remedy as suicide. Mrs. Oberley was raised in Munfordville, Ky., where her parents and a number of brothers and sisters * still live. Her maiden name was Line. She was married to Oberley May 24, 1917, by Justice of the Peace D. Delos Dean. The application shows that the license was issued on May 24, 1917 to Glen Olen Oberley born 1889, that he had been previously married and that he had been divorced from his first wife in 1911. Mrs. Oberley’s name before her marriage was Olive Carroll Line. ’ She was • born in Kentucky April 24, 1900. At the time of her marriage she was but seventeen years of age and the license was issued upon the written consent of her parents, David and Emma Line, of .Munfordsville, Ky. Mrs. Riley Miller and Mrs. Charles Pharis are sisters of the unfortunate woman, who is very near death’s door at the hospital. In answer to an inquiry at the hospital this afternoon at 2:30 o’clock we were informed that Mrs. Oberley was not holding her own and that the chances were decidedly against her recovery.