WIFE OF FORMER HERMAN MAN KILLS SELF

The following newspaper story concerns a former well known resident of this county, Sam Deaver, who at one time operated a saloon at Herman. The coroner’s jury exonerated Deaver from all blame for the woman’s death.

“Mrs. Margaret A. Deaver, 28, is dead as a result of a bullet wound in her forehead and her husband, S.R. Deaver, a bartender, is in jail, held for investigation, as a result of a shot fired in their apartment, 306 North Eighteenth Street, early this morning.

Police called to the house at 12:30 a.m. found Mrs. Deaver dead. Her husband, according to police, said she had shot herself after a quarrel with him.

Deaver said he and his wife had drunk some beer in a saloon at Fifteenth and Chicago streets a short time before the shooting, the police report.

Deaver said he placed his revolver on the ice box when they reached their rooms and that his wife seized it and shot herself.

Mrs. E.E. Cole, landlady, today said Mrs. Deaver had threatened to kill herself several times, because of jealousy existing between her and her husband.

Mrs. Deaver is survived by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Mangle, Sixteenth and William streets, and three brothers, John, Leo and Edward Mangle, and three sisters, Gertrude, Lillian and Frances.”

Note: the original story was from the Saturday, May 27, 1916 Omaha Daily News, p. 1

Note: an article in the Thursday, June 1, 1916 Pilot-Tribune p. 8 includes the sentence “The coroner’s jury exonerated Deaver from all blame for the woman’s death.”

~~~obituary courtesy of the Nebraska Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Public Library, Blair, Nebraska ~~~

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