Bailey - Bessie
Source: Crawfordsville Weekly Journal Friday, 2 December 1898
A message to The Journal last night after midnight from the Chicago Tribune announced the death of Miss Bessie Bailey, of Glen Hall, near Romney. Her death occurred at Elks, Nev., and occurred in a very mysterious manner. She was on her way home from California, where she had been at one time an inmate of the Agnew asylum. She had lived with her uncle, Cyrus Timmons, at Glen Hall. There is said to be a deep mystery shrouding the affair. -s
Source: Crawfordsville Weekly Journal Friday, 9 December 1898
Last Thursday the representative of one of the Chicago papers was called on for information regarding Miss Bessie Bailey, who formerly resided with her uncle, Cyrus Timmons, near West Point, or Glen Hall. The telegram stated that she died on the cars at Elko, Nov., Thursday under very suspicious circumstances and all possible information regarding her was asked. The paper wished to learn if she had written to the Timmons of any trouble she had had in California and whether she was ever married or engaged. The correspondent last Friday ascertained that the girl had not been heard from for years by the Timmons family until about two weeks ago when they received a message from a surgeon at the Agnew Hospital in San Francisco informing them that Bessie would start on the next train for their home. A few days later, Nov. 19, they received a message from the superintendent of the Southern Pacific Railroad saying that Bessie had died in Elko, and asking if they wished her body shipped to them. Two days later the coroner at Elko wired them as to the disposal of the body, and was instructed to bury it there. They were never given intimation until last week that there was a suspicion of foul play and are at a loss to understand the thing. That she should also be reported as having died only last week when they were apprised of her death nearly two weeks ago looks strange.