Edmond Crews, 60, was found shot to death in the living room of his home at Forty-second avenue and Twenty-sixth street yesterday morning and officers said it was a clear case of suicide. Despondency over ill health was given as the reason. Crews lived with a sister, Mrs Mary M. Newman, who was in another part of the house at the time of the shooting. Sheriff's deputies said he shot himself in the head with a shotgun found beside him.
TAMPA TRIBUNE, Thurs., Jan 21, 1937
CREWS, EDMOND E.- Funeral Services for Edmond E. Crews, of Forty-second avenue and Twenty-sixth street will be held this afternoon at 3 o'clock at the funeral home of B. Marion Reed. The Rev. R. H. Whitcomb, pastor of El Bethel Baptist Church will officiate. Interment will be in Jackson Heights cemetary. Pallbearers are Leonard Reynolds, Otto Reynolds, Morris Wallace, William Townsend, R. H. Kerr and Arthur Baker.
Brother to Mary Meredith Crews Newman
Edmond Crews, 60, was found shot to death in the living room of his home at Forty-second avenue and Twenty-sixth street yesterday morning and officers said it was a clear case of suicide. Despondency over ill health was given as the reason. Crews lived with a sister, Mrs Mary M. Newman, who was in another part of the house at the time of the shooting. Sheriff's deputies said he shot himself in the head with a shotgun found beside him.
TAMPA TRIBUNE, Thurs., Jan 21, 1937
CREWS, EDMOND E.- Funeral Services for Edmond E. Crews, of Forty-second avenue and Twenty-sixth street will be held this afternoon at 3 o'clock at the funeral home of B. Marion Reed. The Rev. R. H. Whitcomb, pastor of El Bethel Baptist Church will officiate. Interment will be in Jackson Heights cemetary. Pallbearers are Leonard Reynolds, Otto Reynolds, Morris Wallace, William Townsend, R. H. Kerr and Arthur Baker.
Brother to Mary Meredith Crews Newman
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