Osage County KS Archives News.....Lavey, Pat Lavey a Suicide? 1908
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The Leavenworth Post Thu Oct 1, 1908 1908

            PAT LAVEY A SUICIDE?
LEAVENWORTH MAN BELIEVED TO HAVE KILLED HIMSELF.
           WAS WANTED IN MUSKOGEE
Clipping From Muskogee Paper States That Lavey
 Killed Himself in Oregon While With a Show.
   Yesterday a Leavenworth man received a clipping
from a Muskogee newspaper which stated that Patrick
C. Lavey, formerly of Muskogee, had committed 
suicide in La Grande Oregon. The dispatch was very
brief but it is believed to be authentic. Further
details will be learned later.
   Lavey was for several years a guard at the Kansas
State Prison and was one of the men to go down the 
mine during the prison mutiny. After leaving the 
prison he went on the road with a steroptican giving
lectures about the state prison and selling a book 
which he had written. 
   He married a Kansas City Kansas girl and came to
Leavenworth to live for a time worked on The Post as
a solicitor. He left here and went to Muskogee where
he seemd to be doing very nicely. He organized a 
land company known as Alsuma Land Company and came
out here and sold probably a hundred lots in the 
Alsuma addition near Tulsa to Leavenworth people.
The price was $3 a lot payable in 30 weekly install-
ments o $1 each.
   Lavey had an agent here and the money was all
collected but not deeds ever came. A short time ago 
the Leavenworth people who had paid for lots placed
their claims in the hands of county attorney Lee
Bond who took up the matter with the Alsuma Land
Company and it was learned that Lavey was no longer
connected with the company and had apparently never
turned in any of the money. The land company wrote
for a list of the claimes and set quit claim deeds
to the property which each had bought and each
deed was accompanied by a request for all receipts
and the original contract and intimated that Lavey
would be prosecuted if caught.
   A Leavenworth man who lives in Muskogee recently
wrote here to a friend and said that Lavey had
skipped out of Muskogee traveling with a wild west
show as a rough rider.
   Lavey was a big hearted Irishman and a genuine
hustler but extravagant in his tastes. He was imp-
etuous in his manner and had quite a temper. The 
last time he was in Leavenworht was last winter
when he had a roll of bills whihd his friends say
was "big enough to choke a cow." He stayed at the
National with his wife while here. He has relatives
in the city who have heard nothing of the report
of his death.


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