Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1919 — MRS. GLEN OBERLY SUCCUMBS [ARTICLE]

MRS. GLEN OBERLY SUCCUMBS

Tuesday Evening at 0:40 o’clock Burial Held Thursday. Mrs. Glen Oberly, who shot herself Monday afternoon with a revolver in an attempt to end her life, died at the county hospital about 6:40 Tuesday evening. An inquest was held Wednesday afternoon but nothing was brought out other than that it was a clear case of suicide. Private funeral services were held at St. Augustine’s Catholic church Thursday morning and burial made in Mt. Calvary cemetery south of town. It was brought out at the inquest that the young woman had not been staying at the Smith home since June 8. . She had been visiting her folks in Kentucky and had returned about a week previous. She had tried to get her husband to leave bls parents* home and go to a home of their own, it is said, and she was very bitter against his mother, who is an Invalid and cannot walk. On the. day of the tragedy she went to the Smith home, it is now believed, with the intention of killing Mrs. Smith and then shooting herself. She tried the front door but found the screen hooked. She then went around back of the house and fired the shot which ended her life 26 hours later. A neighbor who saw her near the house noticed that she seemed to have something wrapped up in her apron, and It was evidently the revolver with which she ended her life.