INJURIES ARE FATAL TO BILLY SUNDAY’S SON
George M. Sunday
By United Press
SAN FRANCISCO—George M. Sunday, 40, son of the evangelist, Billy Sunday, is dead of injuries suffered last week when he fell three stories from a window of his apartment.
He died under anesthetic while four doctors were resetting his fractured jaw. His family, assured he would recover, was not present.
Sunday’s mother said she had a premonition of death. At about the hour he died, she sat at the piano in her son’s apartment and played “Nearer My God to Thee.” A telephone call telling her of his death came as she finished.
Authorities said an inquest would be held Wednesday to decide whether Sunday jumped from the window. It was reported he had quarreled with his wife and mother shortly before he fell. Sunday insisted his fall was an accident.
Cited from: Evansville Press, September 12, 1933: pg 1.
YOUNG SUNDAY DIES OF HURTS
Son Of Evangelist Declares Fall Was Accident
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 11 (AP) George M. Sunday, 40, son of Billy Sunday, the evangelist, died here to- night from injuries received in a fall from a window of his fourth-floor apartment Thursday night.
His jaw broken by the fall, Sunday denied in a scribbled note the asser- tion of his wife, the former Mauryne Reichard of Hollywood, that they had quarreled.
“I lost my balance and fell out,” he wrote. “I had no argument, I had not been drinking.”
Mrs. Sunday, who married the evangelist’s son after his divorce from his first wife, told police of a violent scene in which her husband struck her in the eye, broke one of her fingers and then threatened suicide.
Wife Tells of Threats
She quoted him as saying he was “going down and jump in the bay.”
Shortly afterward, she said, she heard groans, rushed to the living room and found he had dropped out of the window.
Sunday suffered fractures of the left leg, both jaws, thigh and knee-cap, severe lacerations of the face and head, and concussion.
Dr. Edgar H. Howell, attending physician, said: “The shock of the mul- tiple fractures and contusions he received caused Mr. Sunday’s death.” Sunday had been reported recovering.
At the bedside were Sunday’s father, who cancelled meetings in Port- land, Ore., to come here, his mother and his wife.
The widow told authorities her hus- band had been ill and worried by financial difficulties recently. She filed a suit for divorce here several months ago, but withdrew it a week later and announced a reconciliation had been completed.
An inquest will be held tomorrow. Mrs. Sunday said funeral services will be held in Los Angeles.
Cited in: The Anderson Herald. Sept 9, 1933: 1.
‘BILLY’ SUNDAY AT SON’S BEDSIDE
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 9.—(AP)—
William A. ‘Billy’ Sunday, evangelist, arrived here today to be with his son, George M. Sunday, who is in a hospital with severe injuries after a 75-foot plunge from the window of his apartment Thursday night.
‘Nothing could keep me from my son at a time like this,’ said the evangelist. He cancelled a revival meeting in Portland, Ore.
Physicians said George Sunday will recover. His wife, the former Mauryne Reichard of Hollywood, said he had suffered a nervous breakdown recently and that his fall occurred after a violent scene in their apartment.
Evansville Courier and Press. 9.10.33: 2
Billy Sunday Reaches Injured Son’s Bedside
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Sept. 9.—(AP)—William A. (Billy) Sunday, evangelist, arrived here today to be with his son, George M. Sunday, who is in a hospital suffering severe injuries after a 75-foot plunge from the window of his apartment Thursday night.
“Nothing could keep me from my son at a time like this,” said the evangelist. He canceled a revival meeting in Portland, Ore.
Physicians said George Sunday will recover. His wife, the former Mauryne Reichard of Hollywood, said he had suffered a nervous breakdown recently and that his fall occurred after a violent scene in their apartment.
The Indianapolis Star. Sun, Sep 10, 1933 ·Page 3
Evangelist Billy Sunday (1862-1935) 