THE OBITUARY OF Jerry Downey

Council Bluffs, Jan. 13.---Jerry Downey, a well known agricultural implement traveling salesman, was found in his bed over the Senate saloon at Broadway and Bryant streets. When discovered the body was cold and stiff, showing that Downey had been dead several hours. Coroner Treynor was summoned, but he was unable to say whether death was due to natural causes or otherwise until a post mortem could be held on the body.

Downey was employed last summer by the McCormick company as a “field expert,” but had been out of employment for the last two or three months, and was in straightened financial circumstances.

(Source: Glenwood Opinion, January 16, 1902)