Excerpt from article in Clinton County Republican, dated Thursday September 5, 1929.
BELIEVE Wm. KIRBY SLAIN BUT DEATH CAUSE IS MYSTERY
Body of Eureka Deputy Sheriff Discovered At Greenbush Church Shed Early Tuesday Morning; Had Been Robbed.
Left Home After Midnight Monday in Search of Suspicious Strangers: No Marks of Violence on Body; Autopsy Fails to Reveal How He Died.
__Died Tuesday, September 3, 1929___________
William Kirby, Clinton County Deputy Sheriff and village Blacksmith at Eureka, was found dead by the side of his car early Tuesday morning at the Greenbush church sheds three miles southwest of his home. The body had been robbed and every indication pointed to foul play although there was no sign of a struggle and no wound or injury on the man’s body that seemed sufficient to result fatally.
Kirby was first appointed a deputy by Sheriff Barnes during Barnes’ first term of office nine years ago. He served four years under Barnes, four under Fox and for the past year and more has continued again under Sheriff Barnes. He was an efficient officer, and well liked by his fellow town men. He is reported to have been a man without fear and, his friends assert that is was probably this courage which led him to put himself within the grasp of two or more desperate persons who took his life. The puzzling thing about the tragedy is that there is no apparent cause of death. Kirby, says Sheriff Barnes, was a powerful man and would have put up a mighty struggle against long odds if attacked. If killed he must have been taken by surprise and dealt a death blow from behind and there is no evidence of such a blow.
The deputy sheriff was 43 years old and had lived in Eureka practically all of his life, although he was born in Gratiot County. His parents were Mr. and Mrs. John Kirby. He was never married and is survived by one sister Mrs. Clifford Langtry of Flint and five brothers, Alvey of Bannister, Jay and Bert of Owosso, John of Flint and George of Hale, Michigan. Burial will be made in the Eureka Cemetery.
Article excerpt: Find Carbolic Acid, Alcohol, Fusel Oil, In Kirby’s Stomach
Pathological tests, conducted at Ann Arbor under the direction of Professor A. S. Warthin in an effort to determine what caused the death of William Kirby, Eureka blacksmith and Clinton county deputy sheriff, have been completed. Saturday a letter from Professor Warthin, addressed to Prosecutor G. G. Hunter, contained the information that carbolic acid, fusel oil and alcohol were found in the man’s stomach together with indications of acute poisoning.
BELIEVE Wm. KIRBY SLAIN BUT DEATH CAUSE IS MYSTERY
Body of Eureka Deputy Sheriff Discovered At Greenbush Church Shed Early Tuesday Morning; Had Been Robbed.
Left Home After Midnight Monday in Search of Suspicious Strangers: No Marks of Violence on Body; Autopsy Fails to Reveal How He Died.
__Died Tuesday, September 3, 1929___________
William Kirby, Clinton County Deputy Sheriff and village Blacksmith at Eureka, was found dead by the side of his car early Tuesday morning at the Greenbush church sheds three miles southwest of his home. The body had been robbed and every indication pointed to foul play although there was no sign of a struggle and no wound or injury on the man’s body that seemed sufficient to result fatally.
Kirby was first appointed a deputy by Sheriff Barnes during Barnes’ first term of office nine years ago. He served four years under Barnes, four under Fox and for the past year and more has continued again under Sheriff Barnes. He was an efficient officer, and well liked by his fellow town men. He is reported to have been a man without fear and, his friends assert that is was probably this courage which led him to put himself within the grasp of two or more desperate persons who took his life. The puzzling thing about the tragedy is that there is no apparent cause of death. Kirby, says Sheriff Barnes, was a powerful man and would have put up a mighty struggle against long odds if attacked. If killed he must have been taken by surprise and dealt a death blow from behind and there is no evidence of such a blow.
The deputy sheriff was 43 years old and had lived in Eureka practically all of his life, although he was born in Gratiot County. His parents were Mr. and Mrs. John Kirby. He was never married and is survived by one sister Mrs. Clifford Langtry of Flint and five brothers, Alvey of Bannister, Jay and Bert of Owosso, John of Flint and George of Hale, Michigan. Burial will be made in the Eureka Cemetery.
Article excerpt: Find Carbolic Acid, Alcohol, Fusel Oil, In Kirby’s Stomach
Pathological tests, conducted at Ann Arbor under the direction of Professor A. S. Warthin in an effort to determine what caused the death of William Kirby, Eureka blacksmith and Clinton county deputy sheriff, have been completed. Saturday a letter from Professor Warthin, addressed to Prosecutor G. G. Hunter, contained the information that carbolic acid, fusel oil and alcohol were found in the man’s stomach together with indications of acute poisoning.
Excerpt from article in Clinton County Republican, dated Thursday September 5, 1929.
BELIEVE Wm. KIRBY SLAIN BUT DEATH CAUSE IS MYSTERY
Body of Eureka Deputy Sheriff Discovered At Greenbush Church Shed Early Tuesday Morning; Had Been Robbed.
Left Home After Midnight Monday in Search of Suspicious Strangers: No Marks of Violence on Body; Autopsy Fails to Reveal How He Died.
__Died Tuesday, September 3, 1929___________
William Kirby, Clinton County Deputy Sheriff and village Blacksmith at Eureka, was found dead by the side of his car early Tuesday morning at the Greenbush church sheds three miles southwest of his home. The body had been robbed and every indication pointed to foul play although there was no sign of a struggle and no wound or injury on the man’s body that seemed sufficient to result fatally.
Kirby was first appointed a deputy by Sheriff Barnes during Barnes’ first term of office nine years ago. He served four years under Barnes, four under Fox and for the past year and more has continued again under Sheriff Barnes. He was an efficient officer, and well liked by his fellow town men. He is reported to have been a man without fear and, his friends assert that is was probably this courage which led him to put himself within the grasp of two or more desperate persons who took his life. The puzzling thing about the tragedy is that there is no apparent cause of death. Kirby, says Sheriff Barnes, was a powerful man and would have put up a mighty struggle against long odds if attacked. If killed he must have been taken by surprise and dealt a death blow from behind and there is no evidence of such a blow.
The deputy sheriff was 43 years old and had lived in Eureka practically all of his life, although he was born in Gratiot County. His parents were Mr. and Mrs. John Kirby. He was never married and is survived by one sister Mrs. Clifford Langtry of Flint and five brothers, Alvey of Bannister, Jay and Bert of Owosso, John of Flint and George of Hale, Michigan. Burial will be made in the Eureka Cemetery.
Article excerpt: Find Carbolic Acid, Alcohol, Fusel Oil, In Kirby’s Stomach
Pathological tests, conducted at Ann Arbor under the direction of Professor A. S. Warthin in an effort to determine what caused the death of William Kirby, Eureka blacksmith and Clinton county deputy sheriff, have been completed. Saturday a letter from Professor Warthin, addressed to Prosecutor G. G. Hunter, contained the information that carbolic acid, fusel oil and alcohol were found in the man’s stomach together with indications of acute poisoning.
BELIEVE Wm. KIRBY SLAIN BUT DEATH CAUSE IS MYSTERY
Body of Eureka Deputy Sheriff Discovered At Greenbush Church Shed Early Tuesday Morning; Had Been Robbed.
Left Home After Midnight Monday in Search of Suspicious Strangers: No Marks of Violence on Body; Autopsy Fails to Reveal How He Died.
__Died Tuesday, September 3, 1929___________
William Kirby, Clinton County Deputy Sheriff and village Blacksmith at Eureka, was found dead by the side of his car early Tuesday morning at the Greenbush church sheds three miles southwest of his home. The body had been robbed and every indication pointed to foul play although there was no sign of a struggle and no wound or injury on the man’s body that seemed sufficient to result fatally.
Kirby was first appointed a deputy by Sheriff Barnes during Barnes’ first term of office nine years ago. He served four years under Barnes, four under Fox and for the past year and more has continued again under Sheriff Barnes. He was an efficient officer, and well liked by his fellow town men. He is reported to have been a man without fear and, his friends assert that is was probably this courage which led him to put himself within the grasp of two or more desperate persons who took his life. The puzzling thing about the tragedy is that there is no apparent cause of death. Kirby, says Sheriff Barnes, was a powerful man and would have put up a mighty struggle against long odds if attacked. If killed he must have been taken by surprise and dealt a death blow from behind and there is no evidence of such a blow.
The deputy sheriff was 43 years old and had lived in Eureka practically all of his life, although he was born in Gratiot County. His parents were Mr. and Mrs. John Kirby. He was never married and is survived by one sister Mrs. Clifford Langtry of Flint and five brothers, Alvey of Bannister, Jay and Bert of Owosso, John of Flint and George of Hale, Michigan. Burial will be made in the Eureka Cemetery.
Article excerpt: Find Carbolic Acid, Alcohol, Fusel Oil, In Kirby’s Stomach
Pathological tests, conducted at Ann Arbor under the direction of Professor A. S. Warthin in an effort to determine what caused the death of William Kirby, Eureka blacksmith and Clinton county deputy sheriff, have been completed. Saturday a letter from Professor Warthin, addressed to Prosecutor G. G. Hunter, contained the information that carbolic acid, fusel oil and alcohol were found in the man’s stomach together with indications of acute poisoning.
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