The Kansas City Journal
Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri
Vol LIV, No 295, p1, c2
Mon 1 Apr 1912
CHARLES O. DIVELEY FOUND
DEAD IN HOME
Former Sanitary Inspector Probably
Asphyxiated While Cooking.
Figured in One Sensation.
The appearance of steam on the windows of the house at 420 South Lawndale avenue, which he owned and where he went yesterday afternoon to see what repairs were needed, caused E. L. Woodard, 1133 State avenue, Kansas City, Kas., to investigate. After he forced the lock on the front door and entered he found the dead body of Charles O. Diveley, the former health inspector, who was tried and acquitted of second degree murder in connection with the death of Mrs. Fern Thompson on the night of September 16, 1910. Diveley was fully dressed and was lying across the bed. He apparently had been dead at least forty-eight hours. The gas was burning full blast in the stove and water heater and the entire house which was locked from top to bottom, was filled with fumes and steam.
Dr. Harry Czarlinsky, deputy coroner, viewed the body and sent it to the Blackman Undertaking Company. Death was thought to have been caused from apoplexy. An autopsy will be held today.
Dively lived alone, his wife having left him a week ago today. He had lived on Lawndale avenue about a month and worked as a laborer in the county garage at Independence.
He was probably preparing a meal when he was stricken. A piece of steak was found burned to a crisp in a skillet on the stove. The table had been set and the coffee had been poured. Diveley was last seen alive Thursday when he called on some friends on Forest avenue near where he formerly lived.
Mrs. Diveley, who left him last Monday morning after she fixed up a lunch for him to take to his work, has been keeping house for a widower and his two children in Kansas City, Kas. She took her daughter, Josephine, with her, but returned to their home about 7 o'clock last night to get some clothes she had neglected to take with her when she left. She was told of his death and went to No. 7 police station and made a statement to Lieutenant Johnson.
"He had been so abusive when he was drinking that I left him several times since we were married in 1910," she said, "it was impossible to live with him, but I intended to come back to him if he would only quit."
Diveley had no children of his own and his only immediate relative besides his wife is one brother, J. E. Diveley of Excelsior Springs, Mo., who will arrive this morning.
On the night Mrs. Thompson was killed, Diveley and his wife and stepdaughter lived at 589 Forest avenue. It was about midnight when a carriage stopped in front of the house and Mrs. Thompson, Mrs. Hattie Jacobs and Herman Menick, a bartender, got out and came to the front door. Menick and Mrs. Thompson who were old friends of Mrs. Diveley before she was married, tried to persuade her to leave her husband and go wth them on a slumming expedition. Diveley who had retired, overhead the conversation and came to the door where he was introduced to the visitors.
A quarrel started and Diveley went to his room and got a gun intending to drive Menick from the place. As he raised the gun Mrs. Thompson grappled wth him and it was discharged killing her instantly. Diveley walked to a telephone and notified the police. He made no attempt to leave the vicinity and was arrested within a block of his home. He was tried on a charge of second degree murder and acquitted by a jury. He lost his position as health inspector when the civil service went into effect.
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From Missouri Death Certificate:
~ Male
~ White
~ Married
~ 42 years, 7 months
~ Ex inspector for City Board of Health
~ Father: W M Diveley, b. Pennsylvania
~ Mother: Mary West, b. Boonville, Missouri
~ Informant: Ed Diveley, Excelsior Springs, Missouri
~ Place of death: 420 S Lawndale Ave
~ Cause of death: Endocarditis, per coroner
~ Burial: 2 Apr 1912, Union Cemetery; Leo J Stewart Undertaker, 332 Westport Ave
From cemetery records:
~ Burial: 2 Apr 1912
~ Undertaker: Stewart
~ Fee: $5
Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri
Vol LIV, No 295, p1, c2
Mon 1 Apr 1912
CHARLES O. DIVELEY FOUND
DEAD IN HOME
Former Sanitary Inspector Probably
Asphyxiated While Cooking.
Figured in One Sensation.
The appearance of steam on the windows of the house at 420 South Lawndale avenue, which he owned and where he went yesterday afternoon to see what repairs were needed, caused E. L. Woodard, 1133 State avenue, Kansas City, Kas., to investigate. After he forced the lock on the front door and entered he found the dead body of Charles O. Diveley, the former health inspector, who was tried and acquitted of second degree murder in connection with the death of Mrs. Fern Thompson on the night of September 16, 1910. Diveley was fully dressed and was lying across the bed. He apparently had been dead at least forty-eight hours. The gas was burning full blast in the stove and water heater and the entire house which was locked from top to bottom, was filled with fumes and steam.
Dr. Harry Czarlinsky, deputy coroner, viewed the body and sent it to the Blackman Undertaking Company. Death was thought to have been caused from apoplexy. An autopsy will be held today.
Dively lived alone, his wife having left him a week ago today. He had lived on Lawndale avenue about a month and worked as a laborer in the county garage at Independence.
He was probably preparing a meal when he was stricken. A piece of steak was found burned to a crisp in a skillet on the stove. The table had been set and the coffee had been poured. Diveley was last seen alive Thursday when he called on some friends on Forest avenue near where he formerly lived.
Mrs. Diveley, who left him last Monday morning after she fixed up a lunch for him to take to his work, has been keeping house for a widower and his two children in Kansas City, Kas. She took her daughter, Josephine, with her, but returned to their home about 7 o'clock last night to get some clothes she had neglected to take with her when she left. She was told of his death and went to No. 7 police station and made a statement to Lieutenant Johnson.
"He had been so abusive when he was drinking that I left him several times since we were married in 1910," she said, "it was impossible to live with him, but I intended to come back to him if he would only quit."
Diveley had no children of his own and his only immediate relative besides his wife is one brother, J. E. Diveley of Excelsior Springs, Mo., who will arrive this morning.
On the night Mrs. Thompson was killed, Diveley and his wife and stepdaughter lived at 589 Forest avenue. It was about midnight when a carriage stopped in front of the house and Mrs. Thompson, Mrs. Hattie Jacobs and Herman Menick, a bartender, got out and came to the front door. Menick and Mrs. Thompson who were old friends of Mrs. Diveley before she was married, tried to persuade her to leave her husband and go wth them on a slumming expedition. Diveley who had retired, overhead the conversation and came to the door where he was introduced to the visitors.
A quarrel started and Diveley went to his room and got a gun intending to drive Menick from the place. As he raised the gun Mrs. Thompson grappled wth him and it was discharged killing her instantly. Diveley walked to a telephone and notified the police. He made no attempt to leave the vicinity and was arrested within a block of his home. He was tried on a charge of second degree murder and acquitted by a jury. He lost his position as health inspector when the civil service went into effect.
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From Missouri Death Certificate:
~ Male
~ White
~ Married
~ 42 years, 7 months
~ Ex inspector for City Board of Health
~ Father: W M Diveley, b. Pennsylvania
~ Mother: Mary West, b. Boonville, Missouri
~ Informant: Ed Diveley, Excelsior Springs, Missouri
~ Place of death: 420 S Lawndale Ave
~ Cause of death: Endocarditis, per coroner
~ Burial: 2 Apr 1912, Union Cemetery; Leo J Stewart Undertaker, 332 Westport Ave
From cemetery records:
~ Burial: 2 Apr 1912
~ Undertaker: Stewart
~ Fee: $5
The Kansas City Journal
Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri
Vol LIV, No 295, p1, c2
Mon 1 Apr 1912
CHARLES O. DIVELEY FOUND
DEAD IN HOME
Former Sanitary Inspector Probably
Asphyxiated While Cooking.
Figured in One Sensation.
The appearance of steam on the windows of the house at 420 South Lawndale avenue, which he owned and where he went yesterday afternoon to see what repairs were needed, caused E. L. Woodard, 1133 State avenue, Kansas City, Kas., to investigate. After he forced the lock on the front door and entered he found the dead body of Charles O. Diveley, the former health inspector, who was tried and acquitted of second degree murder in connection with the death of Mrs. Fern Thompson on the night of September 16, 1910. Diveley was fully dressed and was lying across the bed. He apparently had been dead at least forty-eight hours. The gas was burning full blast in the stove and water heater and the entire house which was locked from top to bottom, was filled with fumes and steam.
Dr. Harry Czarlinsky, deputy coroner, viewed the body and sent it to the Blackman Undertaking Company. Death was thought to have been caused from apoplexy. An autopsy will be held today.
Dively lived alone, his wife having left him a week ago today. He had lived on Lawndale avenue about a month and worked as a laborer in the county garage at Independence.
He was probably preparing a meal when he was stricken. A piece of steak was found burned to a crisp in a skillet on the stove. The table had been set and the coffee had been poured. Diveley was last seen alive Thursday when he called on some friends on Forest avenue near where he formerly lived.
Mrs. Diveley, who left him last Monday morning after she fixed up a lunch for him to take to his work, has been keeping house for a widower and his two children in Kansas City, Kas. She took her daughter, Josephine, with her, but returned to their home about 7 o'clock last night to get some clothes she had neglected to take with her when she left. She was told of his death and went to No. 7 police station and made a statement to Lieutenant Johnson.
"He had been so abusive when he was drinking that I left him several times since we were married in 1910," she said, "it was impossible to live with him, but I intended to come back to him if he would only quit."
Diveley had no children of his own and his only immediate relative besides his wife is one brother, J. E. Diveley of Excelsior Springs, Mo., who will arrive this morning.
On the night Mrs. Thompson was killed, Diveley and his wife and stepdaughter lived at 589 Forest avenue. It was about midnight when a carriage stopped in front of the house and Mrs. Thompson, Mrs. Hattie Jacobs and Herman Menick, a bartender, got out and came to the front door. Menick and Mrs. Thompson who were old friends of Mrs. Diveley before she was married, tried to persuade her to leave her husband and go wth them on a slumming expedition. Diveley who had retired, overhead the conversation and came to the door where he was introduced to the visitors.
A quarrel started and Diveley went to his room and got a gun intending to drive Menick from the place. As he raised the gun Mrs. Thompson grappled wth him and it was discharged killing her instantly. Diveley walked to a telephone and notified the police. He made no attempt to leave the vicinity and was arrested within a block of his home. He was tried on a charge of second degree murder and acquitted by a jury. He lost his position as health inspector when the civil service went into effect.
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From Missouri Death Certificate:
~ Male
~ White
~ Married
~ 42 years, 7 months
~ Ex inspector for City Board of Health
~ Father: W M Diveley, b. Pennsylvania
~ Mother: Mary West, b. Boonville, Missouri
~ Informant: Ed Diveley, Excelsior Springs, Missouri
~ Place of death: 420 S Lawndale Ave
~ Cause of death: Endocarditis, per coroner
~ Burial: 2 Apr 1912, Union Cemetery; Leo J Stewart Undertaker, 332 Westport Ave
From cemetery records:
~ Burial: 2 Apr 1912
~ Undertaker: Stewart
~ Fee: $5
Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri
Vol LIV, No 295, p1, c2
Mon 1 Apr 1912
CHARLES O. DIVELEY FOUND
DEAD IN HOME
Former Sanitary Inspector Probably
Asphyxiated While Cooking.
Figured in One Sensation.
The appearance of steam on the windows of the house at 420 South Lawndale avenue, which he owned and where he went yesterday afternoon to see what repairs were needed, caused E. L. Woodard, 1133 State avenue, Kansas City, Kas., to investigate. After he forced the lock on the front door and entered he found the dead body of Charles O. Diveley, the former health inspector, who was tried and acquitted of second degree murder in connection with the death of Mrs. Fern Thompson on the night of September 16, 1910. Diveley was fully dressed and was lying across the bed. He apparently had been dead at least forty-eight hours. The gas was burning full blast in the stove and water heater and the entire house which was locked from top to bottom, was filled with fumes and steam.
Dr. Harry Czarlinsky, deputy coroner, viewed the body and sent it to the Blackman Undertaking Company. Death was thought to have been caused from apoplexy. An autopsy will be held today.
Dively lived alone, his wife having left him a week ago today. He had lived on Lawndale avenue about a month and worked as a laborer in the county garage at Independence.
He was probably preparing a meal when he was stricken. A piece of steak was found burned to a crisp in a skillet on the stove. The table had been set and the coffee had been poured. Diveley was last seen alive Thursday when he called on some friends on Forest avenue near where he formerly lived.
Mrs. Diveley, who left him last Monday morning after she fixed up a lunch for him to take to his work, has been keeping house for a widower and his two children in Kansas City, Kas. She took her daughter, Josephine, with her, but returned to their home about 7 o'clock last night to get some clothes she had neglected to take with her when she left. She was told of his death and went to No. 7 police station and made a statement to Lieutenant Johnson.
"He had been so abusive when he was drinking that I left him several times since we were married in 1910," she said, "it was impossible to live with him, but I intended to come back to him if he would only quit."
Diveley had no children of his own and his only immediate relative besides his wife is one brother, J. E. Diveley of Excelsior Springs, Mo., who will arrive this morning.
On the night Mrs. Thompson was killed, Diveley and his wife and stepdaughter lived at 589 Forest avenue. It was about midnight when a carriage stopped in front of the house and Mrs. Thompson, Mrs. Hattie Jacobs and Herman Menick, a bartender, got out and came to the front door. Menick and Mrs. Thompson who were old friends of Mrs. Diveley before she was married, tried to persuade her to leave her husband and go wth them on a slumming expedition. Diveley who had retired, overhead the conversation and came to the door where he was introduced to the visitors.
A quarrel started and Diveley went to his room and got a gun intending to drive Menick from the place. As he raised the gun Mrs. Thompson grappled wth him and it was discharged killing her instantly. Diveley walked to a telephone and notified the police. He made no attempt to leave the vicinity and was arrested within a block of his home. He was tried on a charge of second degree murder and acquitted by a jury. He lost his position as health inspector when the civil service went into effect.
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From Missouri Death Certificate:
~ Male
~ White
~ Married
~ 42 years, 7 months
~ Ex inspector for City Board of Health
~ Father: W M Diveley, b. Pennsylvania
~ Mother: Mary West, b. Boonville, Missouri
~ Informant: Ed Diveley, Excelsior Springs, Missouri
~ Place of death: 420 S Lawndale Ave
~ Cause of death: Endocarditis, per coroner
~ Burial: 2 Apr 1912, Union Cemetery; Leo J Stewart Undertaker, 332 Westport Ave
From cemetery records:
~ Burial: 2 Apr 1912
~ Undertaker: Stewart
~ Fee: $5
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