Allegany County MD Archives Obituaries..... Wilfred Vincent TIGHE, 1948
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Cumberland Times, Cumberland, Maryland, 28 Mar 1948: 
"Clarysville--Man Suicide At Road House--Celanese Worker Was 
Part Time Bartender-Shot Self After Easter Flower Tilt--Wilfred 
Vincent Tighe, 36, Clarysille a Celanese employe; shot and 
killed himself early last night in Carrico Gardens, a beer 
tavern service station at Clarysville, where he also worked as 
a bartender.  Dr. H. V. Deming, deputy county medical examiner, 
issued a verdict of suicide and said the blast from a 12 gauge 
single barrel shotgun ripped through his heart and lung about 
6:45 p. m.  State Police, who assisted in the investigation, 
said Tighe returned home yesterday afternoon from Frostburg 
where he had purchased an Easter flower for his wife, Mrs. 
Elizabeth (Davis) Tighe, whom he relieved from duty at the bar. 
The couple lived in an apartment above the place, located 
opposite Mcmurdo's Garage.  Gave Wife Easter Flower According 
to Trooper William Baker, Mrs. Tighe reprimanded her husband 
for buying the flower and said the money could be used for a 
better purpose.  A patron identified as Richard M. Connor, 59, 
Red Hill, Eckhart, was in the tavern at the time.  Connor told 
police that Mrs. Tighe then left and her husband remarked 
"Something's going to happen-I'm going to finish it right 
here.'  He also left after he noticed Tighe go into a store 
room behind the jar and pick up the shotgun.  After Connor 
closed the door and walked a short distance, police were told, 
he heard a shot and rushed back into the place to find Tighe 
lying in a pool of blood on the floor in the room. He rushed 
upstairs and notified the family and Tighe's half-brother, 
Homer Schriner, along with Walter Brown, proprietor of the 
place. Relatives called the LaVale substation and First Sgt. 
W. E. O'Hara and Trooper Baker went to the scene. Was Asthma 
Sufferer Authorities surmised that Tighe, described as having 
a "long reach," put the gun muzzle against his left chest and 
pushed the trigger with a finger.  Another gun was found in 
the room.  Dr. Deming said the family told him that the victim 
had been ill with asthma for some time. Mrs. Tighe reported 
that she and her husband had no serious arguments, but "just, 
the usual misunderstandings."  Born at Frostburg, Tighe had 
been employed in the filtration department at he Celanese 
plant.  He resided at Clarysville about two years.  Surviving, 
in addition to his widow, are two children, Robert, 12, and 
Judy Tighe, 5, at home.  He was a son of Mrs. Lena Chambers, 
Frostburg.  The body was taken to the Durst Funeral Home, 
Frostburg."


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