The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-07-27
BODY OF NOAH GNEGY IS
FOUND FLOATING in LAKE
Four Fishermen Find Him Near
Shore Above Glendale Bridge
Evidently Jumped To His Death
MISSING SINCE JULY II

Noah F. Gnegy, So, of Mt. Lake
Park, who had been missing since be-
tween one and two o'clock a. M,
Wednesday, July II, was found Mon
day evening in Deep Creek Lake By
four fishermen from Barton, about
two hundred feet from Glendale
bridge, indicating he was the second
man since the first Of June to take
his life by jumping from the bridge.
Gnegy, a stonemason, had been en-
ployed at the Swallow Falls CCC camp
near here. Relatives could give no
reason why he should leave his home,
according to Sheriff J. w. Owens. A
continuous search in the vicinity of
his home had been made since his
disappearance by CCC enrollees, coun-
ty officers and neighbors.
Gnegy was found by William C. An
drews, Howard Broadwater, James
O'Rourke and Harrison Kyle, of Bar
ton, who were fishing along the west
bank of the lake in the Narrows sec
ton of the lake when they discovered
the body floating face downward.
Sheriff Owens and Neil C. Fraley,
States Attorney, were notified and
they had the body brought to Oakland
where it was identified by son, Clyde
Gnegy, from the clothes he wore. His
body was in a bad state of preserva-
ton and almost unacceptable. DR..
N. /. Broadwater, county medical eX-
aminer, gave a verdict of suicide by
drowning, after conducting an eXami-
nation of the body in front of Owens
and Fraley. Dr. BroadWater said
there were no marks Of possible foul
play. A watch in his pocket pointed
to ABA, indicating that he had left
his home sometime between one and
TWO o'clock and had walked to the
Lake, a distance of about nine miles,
jumping from the bridge at that time.
The missing man was said to have
returned to his home after midnight
on Tuesday night, July II. Mrs.
Gnegy told officers that she retired
and said her husband said he would
sleep in a room on the lower floor of
the home as he had been feeling i'll all
day. Another member of the family
returning home about o'clock We'd
nesday morning from the pea cannery,
said Mr.. Gnegy was not in the house.
Gnegy is the second man since June
to jump from the bridge, Elwood Hina-
baugh, SO, having taken his life in
this manner on June 8. His body was
not recovered until June 20, in so feet
of water, right near the middle pier
William R. Harvey, civil engineer
of Frostburg, jumped into the lake
from the bridge April 4, 1880, his
body being recovered April 20, SOC
yards above the bridge.
Autopsy Performed
At the request of relatives OF the
deceased, fearing there was a posi-
bility of foul play, an autopsy was
performed upon the body Of Mr.
Gnegy on Tuesday morning. No signs
of anv poison were discovered in the
stomach and a denomination of the
skull showed no bruises or fractures
The result of the autopsy was salts
factory to those who questioned the
cause of his death, according to Mr.
Fraley.
Had Large Family
Mr.. Gnegy is survived by his par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Joel Gnegy, of neal
Red House; his widow, Mrs. Eller
Moomaw Gnegy, and ten children
Mrs. Thelma Polling, Mrs. Emma Ed
monds, Mrs. Gladys Speiler, all OF
Washington, D. c.; Wilbur Gnegy
Florence, S. c.; Mrs. Olive Pritts
Kitzmiller; Clyde Gnegy, Mt. Lake
Park; Delbert Gnegy, Fairmont, W
Va; and Nina, Gordon and Edward, al
home; also three brothers and two
sisters, Mrs. Laura Ross, Cairo, W
Va; Mrs Ella Hardesty, Washington
D. c.; Jesse Gnegy, Eglon, W. Va.
Ray Gnegy, Pleasant Valley, anC
Dewey Gnegy, of Red House.
Funeral services were conducted OF
Wednesday morning at II o'clock from
the Pleasant Valley Methodist church
Rev. Harold Gamblin, of Mt. Lake
Park, officiating. Interment was in tht
Pleasant Valley cemetery.
The deceased was born in Chas'
county, Kansas, December %, 1888
but had resided in this county TO
many years He was married Decem
Der 8, 1905.