Bayles, Dorothy

Dorothy Bayles
May 14, 1904-March 4, 1942


    Despondency over prolonged ill health was blamed today for the suicide of Mrs. Dorothy Bayles, 37, whose body was found at 6:30 Wednesday night in the gas-filled kitchen of her apartment at 1112 Regent street.
    The young woman, wife of Alden Bayles and a resident of Niles only four months, apparently had opened the cooking stove about 4 o'clock to end an illness of more than a year.
    Her body was discovered by Mrs. John Conkright, who lives just below the second floor apartment in the Conkright home into which the Bayles couple moved Saturday.
    In search of carpenter tools mislaid during redecorating work in the apartment last week, Mrs. Conkright had started up the rear stairway to the second floor when she smelled the fumes.  Soon after the body was found slumped near the stove, openings under the doors stuffed with towels, Mr. Bayles returned home from South Bend, where he is employed.
    Efforts of a doctor and Niles firemen to revive the victim with an inhalator were futile. Coroner William N. Pifer reported today that an inquest will be unnecessary.
    Mrs. Bayles, born May 14, 1904, was married in South Bend Aug 8, 1923.  Although Mr. Bayles had been a resident of Niles a number of years., the couple came here to live just four months ago from South Bend.
    Surviving with the husband are the father, William Morehouse, Valparaiso, Ind.; two sisters, Mrs. Pearle Beishton, Corpus Christi, Tex., and Mrs. Harry Wilson, Kouts, Ind., and three brothers, Abe Morehouse, Corpus Christi; William Morehouse, Jr., LaPorte, Ind., and Earl Morehouse, Rolling Prairie, Ind.
    Friends may call at the Pifer funeral home where the service will be conducted Saturday afternoon at 2.  A.J. Martin, pastor of the Church of God, will officiate. Burial will be in Silverbrook cemetery.

(Source: Niles Daily Star, Thursday, March 5, 1942, page 1, col. 5, microfilm Niles District Library)