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Albert Gillespie

(04/19/1885 - 1/7/1942)

branch.gif (1966 bytes)Patrick J. Gillespie
Albert Gillespie
Marriage(s)Elizabeth M. Bird
 1 Lillian Lehr on:
   Children:
  - William Gillespie
  - Albert Gillespie
 
  Siblings:
  - Joseph B. Gillespie
  - Edward Gillespie
  - Florence Gillespie
  - George Gillespie
  - Russell Gillespie
  - Harry Gillespie
 
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Notes:
Shamokin News-Dispatch, Shamokin, Pennsylvania, Wednesday, January 7, 1942, Page 1
Fire Company Janitor Dies After Plunge
Albert Gillespie Fatally Hurt in Fall or Leap From Window
Skull Fractured
Albert Gillespie, 58, janitor of the Liberty fire station on East Sunbury Street, was fatally injured at 3:30 this morning, whne he either leaped or fell from a third floor window of the hose house to the concrete sidewalk adjoing the station driveway.

Gillespie was dead when admitted to Shamokin Hopsital shortly before 4:00 this moring. Surgeons at the hospital said death resulted from a fractured skull and back injuries. Coronoer Sidney Kallaway was notified and will make an investigation before deciding wheather an inquest will be necessary.

Discovery of Gillespie on the fire station sidewalk was amde by Dennis Carr, a telephone company employee, retirign home from night duty at the local exchange. He summonded Patrolmen Aaron Jones and Edward Novak.

When the officers arrived at the scene, Gillespie was semi-conscious and when asked by the officers how he came to be on teh sidewalk in a pol of blood, said he was struck by someone.

Entering the fire station the officers found Patrick Walsh, former fire department chief, asleep before a radio in the social rooms on the second fllor of the building,Walsk, after he was awakened, told officers he was unaware of any accident of Gillespie, stating the janitor had left him about 2:30 to go his sleeping quarters on teh top floor of the building.

Walsh told the patrolman that shortly after 2:00 yesterday morning he noticed Gillespie actiing peculiarly and apparently suffering hallucinations. The janitor, Waslk said, believed a bangquest was in progress, and some time later detected him riasing the hood of the fire patrol It was after this incident that Gillespie announded his intentinon to retire.

Officers preceeded to the top floor of the building, and there found an open windown on the western side of the building. When found on teh sidewalk Gillespie was without shoes. These were found near his bed, which had been occupied.

It is the theory of officers that during a period of acute mental afflication. Gillespie proceeded from his sleeping quarters into the main meeting rom, opened one of the large windows and eighter leaped or toppled to the sidewalk.

Gillespie was a native of Shamokin and made his home in the Liberty fire station for anumber of years, seriving as janitor the past two years. He was a widower and is survived by two sons, Albert and William, a brother, Joseph Gillespie and a sister, Miss Florence Fillespie, all of Shamokin. There is one grandchild, also.
 
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