Saturday September13,2008 TroyRecord Article100 years agoSunday Sept 13,1908 "Michael J. King O'Leary and his wife's bodies are found in an apparent murder suicide at Troy's toll gate house.Mrs O'leary is seated in a chair shot in the eye and her husband is on the floor shot behind the ear,with powder burns in his mouth. O'Leary ran a saloon in Albany on Washington Avenue until last year when he was stripped of his liquor license.They live at 21 Spruce Street.The 'King' showed signs of mental trouble before the saloon closed. He reported to the Albany police several times that he was robbed, once of a few hundred dollars worth of jewelry,but later told police he found the jewelry behind the bar.Most recently the O'Leary's had spent a lot of time at the toll gate house with H.A.Wilkinson , a brother in law,whose been ill recently. Wilkinson's wife, sister of Michael O'Leary, says she heard her brother pleading with his wife to let him have the revolver and later heard shots whereupon she rushed to the kitchen and found the bodies.The O'Leary's are taken to M. Tebutt & Sons undertaking parlor on North Pearl Street." Picture of the day 1952 Marie Antoinette and Nicole Fera of Troy celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary **************New year...new news. Be the first to know what is making headlines. (http://www.aol.com/?ncid=emlcntaolcom00000026)