Ray
Schofield
Kentucky Post, Monday, 11 July 1904, page 1
Uneasy because her son Ray Schofield, 18, had not returned home from an evening at the Queen City Bathing Beach, nearby, Mrs. William Schofield of 150 Ward Avenue, Bellevue, left her home at 3:30 am Monday to search for the missing boy. Alone in the kitchen of the Crescent Club, a small building near the beach, she found him dead, stretched out on the floor, with a bullet hole in his right temple and a revolver in his right hand. Although prostrated with grief for a moment, the mother lost no time in reporting the case to Chief of Police Ratliff of Bellevue as she suspected foul play.
Ratliff found the message scratched on the extension table with a pin which bears out the suicide theory. The body was removed to the Schofield home. Fellow members of the club told the police he was with them all day Sunday and Sunday night and seemed in good spirits. He left the club at 1 am saying he was going to Cincinnati. It is believed he watched his chance to re-enter the club after the others had gone to kill himself.
Young Schofield was a printer, employed in Cincinnati and his mother, knowing he had to go to work early Monday was anxious he get some sleep. She little realized that any hard had befallen him when she started out to look for him, as he was a boy of good habits and was not know to be in any trouble. The body was warm when found which indicated the shot had been fired only a short time before. Coroner Higgins of Newport will hold an inquest.
It developed Monday that Schofield borrowed the revolver Sunday of Dave Trunnel, member of the club, saying he was going over to Mt Adams and might need it.