Mecklenburg-Richmond County NcArchives Obituaries.....Windle, George January 2, 1904 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Danielle Mozingo danisue1970@yahoo.com October 12, 2011, 9:30 pm Charlotte Observer, January 3, 1904 GEORGE H. WINDLE SUICIDE ----- DEPRESSION THE CAUSE GIVEN. ----- A Sensational Tragedy in a Charlotte Home--Pistol Bullet Ends Melancholia That Began With a Street Car Accidnet. Mr. George H. Windle, of Hamlet, a former resident of this city, shot himself through the right temple at the home of his father-in-law, Mr. W. H. Alley, at 1315 South Tryon street, at 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon, dying within an hour. Mr. Windle came to the city Thursday night from Hamlet, where he is a bar- tender for E. A. Lackey & Co., to visit his wife and children, who reside with the parents of Mrs. Windle. He seemed cheerful and in the best of spirits and spent the greater part of the morning in the house with his family. About 2 o'clock, while in the living room, conversing with his family and mother-in-law, he made some trivial excuse and went in the room across the hall, which had been assigned to him for a bed room. No one thought anything of his leaving until some member of the family found him, a few minutes later, lying across the bed in an unconscious condition with the smoking revolver at his side. A physician was summoned by telephone, but Windle died 10 minutes after the physician arrived. Windle lived in this city for several years, moving away only about a year ago to accept his present position at Hamlet. He was for four years conductor on the street railway in this city, resigning that position to accept one with Mr. G. W. Norman as a bartender. He was later employed at S. R. Lentz & Co.'s in the same capacity. He was a conductor on the car which ran over and killed little Ethel Nolin, the daughter of Mr. William Nolin, about three years ago. The accident came to him as a shock from which he never seemed to revocer, resigning his position as conductor on that account. He had talked incessantly of the accident ever since it occurred, and often said the thought of it depressed him and never left him. Suicide appears to be hereditary in the family of Mr. Windle. His fahter killed himself in this city abou 15 years ago. The reasons for his suicide have never been known. Mr. Windle was well known in this city and had manny friends. He was 28 years old, and had been twice married. He is survived by his wife and three children, a mother, who lives in this country, and two brothers, one who resides near Fort Mill, S. C., and the other in New York. The funeral services will be conducted at the home of his father-in-law, at 1315 South Tryon street this afternoon at 2:30 o'clock by Rev. L. R. Pruett. The interment will be at Elmwood. The Bar-tenders' League will meet at their hall on West Trade street at 1 o'clock to attend the funeral. The pall-bearers will be: W. G. Gray, Peter McGinn, T. J. Gribble, Sam Culp, W. L. Austin and C. R. Curlee. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/mecklenburg/obits/w/windle2854gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ncfiles/ File size: 3.4 Kb