Bay-Cheboygan County MI Archives News.....Father and Son Dead - Lucien Bartley July 15, 1892
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Jackson Citizen Patriot July 15, 1892
Two of the Persons Connected with the Bay City Tragedy, Died Yesterday

Bay City, July 15.-Yesterday afternoon, the 6-year-old son of Lucien Bartley, 
who was shot through the abdomen by his father, was removed to this city, where 
he died a few minutes to 12 o'clock. He was conscious most of the time, 
frequently asking for a drink.

Bartley grew rapidly worse yesterday afternoon, and at 5:30 o'clock a nurse who 
went to his bedside, found him in the throes of death, and he died a few minutes 
later.

The records show that Bartley came to Bay City from Batavia, N. Y., early in the 
60's. After his birth his father died and his mother married a man named Byron 
Kennedy, who came to this city and enlisted in the army for three years. Upon 
his return he quarreled with his wife and they separated, he going to 
Indianapolis, Ind. There were three children born of their marriage-two sons and 
a girl. One of the former is a prosperous merchant of Cheboygan, and the other 
lives near Kalamazoo. The girl has been lost track of, being heard from last at 
Au Sable.

Twelve years ago Elbius Allen, then 93 years of age, a resident of Batavia, came 
to this city in search of his daughter, Mrs. Kennedy. He found her living in a 
shanty on a raft near Davidson's ship yard. He purchased a house and lot on 
Litchfield street for his grandson, the agreement being that he should take care 
of his mother. Shortly after that Bartley married a young woman named Adeline 
King, but after a child was born they had a falling out on a religious question, 
which resulted in a divorce suit being brought by Bartley. This was discontinued 
November 16, 1888, after pending two years, and the following day a complaint in 
a divorce case was filed by his wife. February 23 next a decree was granted. In 
the meantime Bartley was living with the woman Halliday, whom he installed as 
mistress of his Litchfield home soon after his wife left it.

A newspaper reporter managed to gain admission to the little blue house in the 
slab piles near the Michigan Central passenger depot on the west side this 
morning. It was here that Bartley and the Halliday woman moved with their 
children four weeks ago. Bartley, after getting through his work at the mill 
yesterday at 12:30 a.m., came to the house, got his revolver, changed his 
clothing and went to the Halliday home on Mill row, where the deed was 
committed.

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