Berrien County MI Archives Obituaries.....Clowes, Charles A. January 21, 1886 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Mary Ellen Drolet MaryDrolet@comcast.net March 8, 2010, 12:29 pm Buchanan Record, Thursday, January 28,1886, page 3, col. 4 Buchanan Record, Thursday, January 28,1886, page 3, col. 4, microfilm Niles District Library TWO OF THEM DEAD--Charles A. Clowes, familiarly known among his acquaintances here, where he lived a few years since, as "Armpie", has by force of circumstances been in the highway of wealth, having been left a large fortune by a his [sic] step-father, Mr. Loomis, whose remains were buried in this place a couple of years since, and being engaged in the money-making business of making whisky. During the past six years he has kept as his mistress one Blanche Gray, whom he visited at some of the various houses of prostitution, wherever they happened to be, mostly in Chicago, and lately at the house of Carrie Watson, on Clark street. Last Thursday afternoon they were out for a drive, returning at about 9:30 in the evening, and went to her room, he so drunk that became necessary for the negro waiter to undress him and put him to bed. Between one and two o'clock two pistol shots, about five minutes apart, were heard in their room, and upon breaking in the door both were found to be dead. She was lying in bed as if sleeping, hands crossed over her breast and a bullet hole through near the heart. He had fallen upon the floor with a bullet hole through his head. Her remains were taken to the morgue and his to his wife, whom he had married ten months since in New York. Several theories are advanced as to the manner of the killing. Some holding that he shot her then himself, others that she shot herself and he himself, and still others that she shot both. The former was the dicision[sic] of the coroner's jury, but it matters little which is the correct theory, nor does it matter so much that both are dead. Their surroundings were that of debauchery and crime, and so long been so that there was no hope for any better condition of their life. Her funeral was held from the undertaker's establishment. His from the of his uncle, T.M. Fulton, at Hyde park, and the remains brought to this place for burial, arriving Monday noon. The remains were accompaned[sic] by Mr. H.B. Miller and family, Mr. T.M. Fulton, and other relatives and friends from Chicago. A number ofhis old frineds from South Bend were also here. Niles Weekly Mirror, Wed. Jan. 27, 1886, page 5, col. 5, microfilm Niles District Library The remains of Chas. Clowes were brought to Buchanan, Monday, and interred beside those of his father. Clowes shot and killed his mistress and then himself, on Thursday last, in Carrie Watson's bagnio, 441 South Clark street, Chicago. Deceased leaves a most estimble wife. He was a nephew of Those, Fulton, late of Buchanan. Additional Comments: Burial at Oak Ridge, Charles A. Clowes, 1852-1886, "beloved son", Sec. 3, lot 20. 1880 Federal Census, Springfield, Ill. Household of Hiram Loomis, age 72, Distiller, born Vt., wife Anna, age 52, born Ohio, son Charles, age 28, Distiller, born Michigan, father Ohio, mother, Ohio. Elizabeth Fulton, mother-in-law, age 78, widow, born Ohio. Per Buchanan Record, Thursday, February 21, 1884, page 3, col. 3, the remains of Hiram Loomis, who died Feb. 16, 1884 in Springfield were returned to Buchanan for burial. Per Application for Passport by Charles A. Clowes at New York April 13, 1881, he was born April 23, 1852 in Cass County, Michigan. (Ancestry.com) File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/berrien/obits/c/clowes2972nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 3.9 Kb