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UNOWNED IN A HATH TUB.Death of \Y lliam A. Pecllf, Jr.A despatch was received here last night containing the startling m ws that Wi Hum A. Peelle, Jr., was drowned in a hath tub, at about 5 o’clock last evening.No tarther particulars were received until this morning. The Indianapolis Sent'nel gives the following particulars of the sad affair:William A. Peelle, Jr, ex-chief of the bureau of state statistics, met death yesterday by drowning in a hath tub at the now Visitors’ Home, a fino hotel just built by the Sisters of Providence outside St. Mary’s institute, five miles west of Terre Haute.The accident occurred about 4 o’clock ii: the afternoon. The peculiar means of death first suggested suicide, but investigation by Coroner Payne disclosed the fact that it was purely accidental. Mr. Peelle was to open and take charge of the hotel and with his wife went therefrom this city for that purpose last Friday, intending to open it next Monday. .He had been in poor health of late. He started to take a bath in the new bath rooms. He had been in the room some time when Mrs. Peelle went to assist him u.v diessii g. She could get no answer at the door, and becoming alarmed she called for assistance. The door was forced open and Mr....Peelin' was found dead stretched out in the bath tub.In the excitement lie effort at res-uscint.ion was made. He was lying partially on his right side with his left arm beneath his body and his right arm pointed to the side of the tub by the weight of the body. The tub was but half filled with water, making it very easy for him to have prevented drowning by a slight struggle. The doctors think Mr. Peelle was drowned in attempting to turn the weight of his body around. They think that in doing so the weight of his body fell on his arms, and being weak, from sickness he could not extricate himself. The remains will be brought to this city to-day. '■The deceased was son of John C. Peelle, of this city, and spent most of his boyhood days here, leaving here in 1874, to accept the position of Deputy Secretary of Statf, under the late John E. Neff. The Sentinel give.- the following history of the life of Mr. Peelle:William A. Peelle, Jr., was born in Wayne county, Indiana, in 1845. While stil! a lad his father movedto Winchester, Randolph county,: Ind., wheie young Peelle took a pn-1 si film in a dry goods store as clerk. He ri indued t hero for several years. He was a more lad when the war broke out, bur. before it closed he ; put in eighteen months service for his country. .Ho was in the com i missionary department at Nash ! viile, Tenn. Ho returned to Winchester at the close of the war, and ; ••einnined these until 1874, when h. came to thi-i e;tv. He was appoint , e*l Dei ut.v 8,-oretnr.v of the and served two terms under Seem-! Uirv Neff, and was again apin-j iit*ol bv the Hon J. Cl Shankliu when the • liter was elected in 1878 He w sAssj-f!,nt t'te-k of the h-'e-i'du.tuH' in 1881, and 'vas afterward elected Chief of the Bureau of Statistics, an office which th“ legislature gnv«* him three times successively.The office was afterward made elective by the people, and in 4890 Mr. Peelle was elected and n short time, ago completed his second t» rm.When Mr. Peelle was succeeded by Mr, Thompson, a few weeks ago lit* made a business deal which required his residence at St. Mary’s in Vigo county, and about ten day-* ago lie removed, with his family, to that place.Mr. Peelle was a brother of Stanton J. Peelle, Judge of United States Court of Appeals ut Washington.Mr. Poelle’s record in the State House is a remarkable one. In all he spent a little over sixteen years there, duiing ten of which he was at the head of Bureau of Statistics.
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Winchester Daily Journal
Winchester, Indiana, US
Tue, Dec 18, 1894
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