Albert R. MILES

MILES, MCGAFFEY

Posted By: Valorie McGaffey Richards (email)
Date: 8/29/2010 at 17:00:17

“I Am Tired Of Life.”

I won’t be any more. You find me at the hotel. Help Ma the best you can. I am tired of life. I don’t care a d—n to live any longer.

Albert R. Miles, a laboring man of this city, borrowed a sheet of paper from a son Tuesday afternoon and scribbled that note. The act was accompanied by a threat that he would kill himself at 7 o’clock the following evening. He made like threats to friends whom he met during the intervening hours. Miles had been drinking heavily for several days past, and his words passed by as idle. Wednesday evening, however, at the hour he had appointed, he stepped outdoors at the home of a son, and returned to tell the family that he had taken carbolic acid. A call was dispatched for a physician at once, but the man was dead before aid could reach him. Coroner C. C. Tallman was called and viewed the body, but decided that an inquest was unnecessary.

Mr. Miles was in the fifty-fourth year of his age and had resided in this vicinity for several years. His wife and three sons- Earl, Clyde and Frank- reside in this city. The body was taken to Keosauqua, a former home of the family, Friday for burial.

Fairfield Ledger
Wednesday, 24 Dec 1913
* Albert Miles was married to Adeline McGaffey