Bloomington (Monroe County, Indiana) Telephone, June 15, 1913, p. 1. NOTE: The article noted below was abbreviated from the original as noted by the ellipsis. "30" SOUNDS FOR GEORGE W. RILEY Newspaper Man's Varied Career Suddenly Ends "Thirty" sounded on the career of George W. Riley, newspaperman of southern Indiana for the past 20 years, suddenly last night at ten o'clock at the Riley home on South Lincoln Street. Death came unexpectedly, although Mr. Riley was not in good health. He was lying on the bed at home when he suddenly was attacked and death resulted in a few minutes. There was no physician in attendance and Coroner C. E. Harris was in this afternoon conducting an investigation. Mr. Riley was home from Linton where he had been employed on the Linton Record, on a vacation but expected to return there in the next few days. He complained to his friends about not feeling well but no one realized he was in a serious condition. He is survived by three brothers, Charles and William of this city, and John of Washington City. The news of the death has been wired to Mr. Riley at Washington City and no funeral arrangements will be made until he is heard from. Coroner Harris' final verdict was that Mr. Riley died of heart failure. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------ Mr. Riley for years had been a newspaper man and had worked on many papers in southern Indiana and in Kentucky.When a boy he started work in the spoke factory and from there got work in all the Bloomington papers and was the city editor of the Daily Progress, the name of the last attempt made to establish a third paper in Bloomington. In recent years he has worked on the Bedford Mail, the Vincennes Commercial and the Linton Call and Linton Citizen. An interesting part of Riley's career was his handling of the Sarah Schaffer murder case at Bedford and the book he afterwards wrote about the mystery. He was working on the Bedford Mail at the time of the murder and followed the case from the beginning to the end. He did considerable detective work of his own and finally arrived at a theory of the murder all of his own. On this theory, which involved prominent Bedford people, he wrote a book but was never able to secure a publisher. Riley had his ups and down, and because of the manner in which he wrote many of his stories, he had continual trouble. Often he was out of work, and 20 years after he left the spoke factory, he returned to Bloomington one summer broken in health, without money, with but few friends, and no position in sight. He donned a pair of overalls and went back to the old spoke factory, did the work he did as a boy and drew the same pay. But at a factory he was still a newspaper man. Very near every morning he would phone into The Telephone that he had a story. A cub reporter would go to the factory and there Riley at his work would give him some story he had unearthed. Probably the story had been carried from Polk Township by a man driving a wagonload of logs, or a baby in the neighborhood had met with an accident or a dog had done some stunt unusual to dogs. Always it was a good story.