Detroit Free Press , September 5, 1908 Mrs. Belle Hawley was seemingly always at the cusp at having it all: love, money, health and happiness but couldn't quite get there. She had modest wealth and a marriage to a well-to-do saloon keeper Edward Hawley but couldn't keep him. After dying in a barroom brawl with his brother James, Hawley left nothing to his erstwhile wife. A frequent occupant at the County House along with her sister Mary Glenn she had been let out of the facility a few weeks before her untimely death. Though seemingly afflicted with heart troubles she chose to be healthy over cared for and died from an aortic "aneulism" after ignoring the doctor's office for the comforts of the Continental Hotel at 55 Cadillac Square. She had blamed her sickness on an accidental poisoning but an autopsy said otherwise. She was 45 years old.