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Chase County Kansas Obituaries
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Moss, Wesley KILLS SELF BY ASPHYXIATION
Wesley Moss, Aged Elmdale Recluse,
Rolled Himself in blanket with
Open Gas Hose
Death --Self inflicted came to
Wesley Moss, aged Elmdale man
early last Saturday morning.
About 8:30 Saturday morning when Mr, Moss did not make his appearance as usual, neighbors went to his home and there found him dead. The body lay on the floor covered with some blankets from the bed and the rubber hose which had been attached to a small gas stove was detached from the stove and the open end was near Mr. Moss' head under the blankets, showing that death had
been caused from asphyxiation. When found the body was still warm.
Mr. Moss lived by himself in a small building where he did his own cooking and slept at nights. About
midnight some one had seen what they thought was a fire in his home and had given an alarm. However, when several men reached his house there was no sign of a fire so they supposed the report was a mistake, and no one entered the house.
Saturday morning Mr. Moss' room showed that there had been a fire in the room which might have been caused from a gas explosion. The aged man was burned about the face and most of his hair had been burned or singed. Just what had happened probably never will be known.
After he bad been burned, it is believed he went to bed as the bed showed that he had been in it. Probably his suffering from the burns was so great that he decided to end it all by inhailing gas and this he accomplished by covering himself with blankets on the floor and smothering himself with gas from the open jet.
Mr. Moss was about seventy years of age. He and his family came to Elmdale seventeen or eighteen years ago and for a good many years, he and his wife ran the Moss Hotel just South of the Santa Fe tracks. Because of age and their ill health they quit the hotel a year or two ago.
Mrs. Moss went to Fairfield, Neb. to live with some of her children and it had been planned that later Mr. Moss would come. After quitting the hotel he had engaged in raising pigeons.
His wife and children had urged him to come to Fairfield and it had been expected he would go there after he had
disposed of his pigeons this year but, he had not gone and had continued to live by himself.
In response to a telephone message to Fairfield, Nebraska, Saturday morning Mr. Moss' son, James Moss, arrived Saturday night. He made arrangements for shipping the body to Fairfield and returned to his home Sunday afternoon. The remains were sent from Elmdale to Fairfield Monday morning and it had been planned to hold the funeral at Fairfield Tuesday afternoon.
Besides his widow, Mr. Moss is survived by four children. They are Mrs. Goldie Hoyt, Jim Moss and Dorothy Moss, all of Fairfield, and Mrs. Beulah Hartley, of Fresno, California.
Chase County Leader News, Cottonwood Falls, Kansas, Dec 04 1929.
by Lorna Marvin
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