Harry W. Seely
Personal
Gender: Male
Date of Death: March 18, 1938
Birth Place: Owensville, TX
Death Place: San Antonio, TX
Harry W. Seely
SEELY – Died in this city March 18, 1938. Harry W. Seely, age 65 years, residence 918 W. Commerce street, city. He is survived by his daughters, Mrs. E.H. Jackson, Mrs. E.H. Steen and Mrs. Nona S. Smith, half brother B.F. Davis, grandchildren Eugene Jackson and Roy Steen. Funeral services will be held Sunday, March 20, at 3 p.m. (three) from the chapel of Hagy and McCollam with Rev. W.H. Anderson officiating. Interment will be in San Jose Burial Park.
Published in the San Antonio Light, Saturday March 19, 1938 page 2B
MERCHANT DIES OF ROBBERY INJURIES
A 66-year old second hand store operator was dead Saturday, the victim of San Antonio hijackers.
H.W. Seely, owner of a store at 918 West Commerce street, succumbed late Friday in Physicians and Surgeons hospital to a skull fracture received in a holdup March 7.
Seely was alone in his store when two negroes entered and asked to see a coat. While one of the pair was trying on the garment the other stepped behind the merchant and slugged him with an iron bar.
After looting the cash register of $20, the hijackers fled, leaving their victim unconscious on the floor.
A customer entering the store half an hour later found Seely and notified Deputy Sheriff J.J. Kievenhagen. Seely was taken to the hospital, where his injury was diagnosed as a skull fracture.
The iron bar used in the murder was found behind a counter in the second hand store by Kievenhagen. It failed, however, to yield, any fingerprints.
Seely, a native of Owensville, had been a San Antonio resident for 17 years. Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. None S. Smith of Tulsa and Mrs. E.H. Jackson and Mrs. E.H. Steen, both of San Antonio; a half-brother, B.F. Davis of West Columbia, and two grandchildren, Eugene Jackson and Roy Steen.
Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. from the Hagy and McColum chapel, the Rev. W.H. Anderson officiating. Interment will be in San Jose Burial park.
Published in the San Antonio Light, Saturday March 19, 1938 page 3A
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