Charles Shutterly's obituary, Bellevue, Eaton County, Michigan
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SUBJECT: Charles SHUTTERLY
SUBMITTER: Jan Lubitz Sedore
EMAIL: am0773@a1access.net
DATE: May 21, 1999
SURNAMES: SHUTTERLY
THE VERMONTVILLE ECHO
September 7, 1904
FOUND DEAD IN BELLEVUE, CHARLES SHUTTERLY

The residents of Bellevue were given a shock Wednesday morning when it
became known that early risers had found the body of Charles Shutterly,
a farmer residing near Bellevue, lying beside the livery barn of the new
Dyer hotel, with the skull crushed and other indications that Shutterly
had met a violent death. The coroner was notified and a jury impaneled.
It was ascertained that Shutterly had been killed in all probability, by
a fall to the ground from the door of the hayloft of the barn, a distance
of about twenty feet. Shutterly it is stated was drunk Wednesday and that
night climbed up into the hayloft to sleep over night. It is supposed that
while moving about the barn in a befuddled mental condition he accidentally
walked out of the open door. Death it was believed had been instantaneous.
The jury returned a verdict that his death was due to Shutterly's own carelessness.
The deceased was about 47 years of age and a single man.