Chester County PA Archives Obituaries.....Mirkil, Hazleton  Jul 17, 1935
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CR 7. 19. 1935 Fri.
Believed to have been despondent
because of ill health, Hazleton Mlrk
kil, 44, of West Chester and Phila-
delphia, well known attorney, com-
mitted suicide by shooting himself.
late Wednesday afternoon'
  His lifeless body with a bullef
wound in the head was found in a
woods opposite the West
Chester  Golf and Country Club about one
quarter mile north of West Chester.
  A .32 calibre revolver, said to have
been the property of hisfather, I.
Hazleton Mirkil, was found beside
the body. It had one discharged
shell and another showed an indenta-
tion in the cap but had apparently
missed fire.
 Mirkil had been missing from his
home since about four o'clock
Wednesday afternoon. West Chester
police were asked yesterday at noon
to search for him.
A squad of Boy Scouts, under
leadership of R. B. Weiler, Scout-
master, found the body. It lay in a
thicket about 50 yards off North New
street, a little traveled road leading
out of town.
Mirkil lived with his father and
brother-in-law, Edmund Rogers, at
428 N. Church street in the summer.
In the winter the family resided at
2127 Delancey street, PhiladelPhia.
   Wednesday afternoon Mirkil and
his young nephew had been to a mov-
ing-picture show at West Chester.
   Mirkll is said to have expressed dis-
like for the picture, one scene of
which depicted a suicide. After the
show it is believed he walked home,
obtained the revolver and then went
to the woods where his body was
found.
  Deputy Coroner George E. Brin-
ton, West Chester, who was called to
the scene, said the case was one of
suicide.He released the body im-
mediately.
Mirkil's brother-in-law and a hro-
ther, -William, were called to the
scene shortly after the body was
found. They made arrangements for
the funeral which will be held this
afternoonServices will be strictly
private.
  Mirkil suffered a "nervoud" break-
down about a year ago and had not
been aclive in the practice of law
since that time. He formerly was
associated with his father, also an
attorney. The latter is manager of
the Girard Estate in Philadelphia. At
one time Mirkil was associated in
law with John M. Hemphill, former
Democratic candidate for Governor.
  During the World War Mirkil was
navigation officer at the Naval Air
Station at Pensacola, Fla., and is
ranking officer and oommodore of the
Veterans Corps, USNNaval Re-
serve Flying Corps.
  In June, 1933, he was divorced by
the former Charlotte Morris, daugh..
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Riohard Mor~
ris of Germantown.
Last February he married Miss
Jetta Geffen, daughter of Mrs. Vera
S. Geffen, of Hollis, NY.
  Mirkil was considered an authority
upon aeronautical law. Some time
ago he tried a case 1n Chester oounty.
court and obtained a permanent in~
junction restraining the operation of
an airport near West Chester.