The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-01-18
THIRD TRAGEDY VICTIM
"oLD NELL BAILEY" SUccUMBS
TO PARALYSIS.
is THE RESULT OF LEES DEATH
Dead Woman Had Not Been out Of
Bed Since Day Before Her Husband
Was Buried, But Now She Will be
Buried Beside Two Former Mates.
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Buried Beside Two Former Mates.
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The third victim of a dual tragedy
that occurred in Norfolk last Septem-
Der was claimed by death at 1l:22
o'clock last night when Nell Bailey
wife of the dead Lee Bailey and keeper
of resort in Norfolk for a score Of
years, closed her eyes in eternal sleep
Stricken with a second stroke of pa
ralysis on the. day before her dead
husband was to be buried, "Old Nell y
as she became known among her asso-
ciates, was carried TO bed and never
moved from her couch until the under
taker was called late last night. The
excitement of the tragedy which cost
Lee Bailey his life, caused the paralyt-
ic stroke which ended in the death of
his wife
The funeral will be held Saturday
afternoon at o'clock from the house
over which the dead woman ruled for
so many years. Burial will be in
Prospect Hill cemetery i'm the same
lot which holds her two dead husbands,
Lee Bailey and a man named Wells,
to whom she was married many years
ago and who died in Norfolk
Not a Relative on Earth.
Nell Bailey had not relative on
the face of the earth, so far as is
known The only person in any way
related to her is Albert Bailey Of Oma-
ha, brother of Lee, who arrived in
Norfolk last night few hours before
the womau's death, and who made ar
rangements for the funeral.
"Old Nell" came to Norfolk more
than twenty years ago and has been
associated with the same region dur
ing all of her residence here. 1t was
eighteen years ago that she was mar
ried to Lee Bailey. She was ffty-three
years of age last July. She had suf-
fered one paralytic stroke previous to
the tragic death of Lee Bailey, but
she had partially recovered from the
first when the second stroke came
upon her. From this she never recoy-
cred and it was announced at the time
of the Bailey funeral that it was only
a question of a short time before she
should succumb. She surprised physi-
clans by her strong constitution in
surviving as long as she did. OF late
she had taken to the use OF morphine
in heavy quantities and this is said 10
have fastened her death.
1t was stated after the wOman's
death by Albert Bailey that her af-
fairs will he placed in the hands OF an
administrator and that the place which
she has conducted would probably be
continued under new management.
\ V,otiu5 Il 'e5 LIE.
Nell Bailey was big, coarse look
ing woman, weighing in the neighbor-
hood of zoe pounds. Where she was
born or where she came from is not
known here. She became violently
frenzed when excited and, couple of
years ago, shot Lee Bailey in the back
while enraged. She disliked publicity
and on that occasion remarked sarcas-
tically, "Of course the d news
papers have to know everything"
When informed last September that
Bailey had been killed she drove over
to town in a hack. At first she refused
to believe him dead but when she
found it to be- true she turned upon
the assembled crowd and applied all
the epithets of her vocabulary to ev-
erybody within range.
But after she had Gained down there
were traits of gentleness in this wo-
man, for all her rough life. After she
had shot Lee Bailey in the back, and
while he lay at the danger point, she
nursed him as tenderly as another wo-
man ever could and regretted her act
in deep emotion.
She longed to accompany the re-
mains of Lee Bailey to the grave last
fall but, stricken with paralysis, could
only listen 10 the funeral service. On
Saturday afternoon, a victim to the
life that she has led, she will be taken
to the grave of her two dead husbands,
to remain forever