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ANTHONY KYLE His body found On Warrior Ridge After Exposure Of Two Weeks
Mentally Deranged 

Anthony, better known as "Jerry" Kyle, was found dead on Monday about 1
o'clock on Warrior Ridge on the right of the old river road leading past
the Reformatory to Alexandria by three of his sons, Andrew, David and
James who had gone out to look for him. He was found first by his son
James, who called his brothers to the scene. The body was in a sitting
position against a stump, a few hundred yards from the Reformatory. A
bottle with some laudanum remaining in it indicated that the deceased
had committed suicide. Mr. Kyle, we are informed, helped his wife to
move on February 27, and on that day complained of pains in the head,
and lay down for a while. On the following day he left the house about
10 o'clock without telling any of the family where he was going, but
they afterward thought that he was with his daughter, Mrs. Robert Keith,
of Tyrone. Later they got a letter from her saying that he was not there
and then they began to make a search for him. As Mr. Kyle had formerly
lived in Porter township, they went to hunt in that direction, having
also learned from Mrs. George Kyle, his sister-in-law, that she and her
son had seen him some days previously walking on the road in the
direction of Warrior Ridge. The young men after finding the body
returned hurriedly and told their mother who lives at 933 Moore street,
of the grusome discovery. Undertaker Dick went out after the corpse
which after having been out doors for two weeks was in no condition to
be viewed. It lay at the morgue until Tuesday afternoon when a funeral
procession was formed at the house to go to McConnellstown and inter it
in the cemetery where the father of the deceased was buried. An inquest
was deemed unnecessary as the bottle of laudanum told the tale. His wife
thinks his mind had been unsettled for some time, as he often acted
strangely and would start off on trips without telling anyone where he
was expecting to go. He was the son of Samuel and Rebecca Kyle and was
born in Juniata township. He was married to Almira Grove on May 31st,
1880 and followed farming for twenty years in Penn and Porter townships
A year ago in March, the family moved to Huntingdon. He was aged about
sixty years. He is survived besides his wife by nine children: Andrew,
Raymond, James, Edna, and Mabel, at home; Mrs. Frank Enyeart, of
Marklesburg; George Kyle, of Tyrone; David, of Hollidaysburg; Mrs.
Robert Keith, of Tyrone; also by one sister, Mrs. Jerry Brenneman, and
one brother, George Kyle, of Porter township, and one half-brother, John
Kyle, of Juniata township.