Thursday, July 15, 2010

Francis McKeon committed suicide . . .

. . . at Syracuse, N.Y., in a fit of delirium tremens, by jumping into the Genessee river a short distance above the high falls.

While P. P. Grant, of Rochester, N.Y., was recently conveying his insane wife to the asylum at Canandaigua, she jumped off the cars and was instantly killed.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 3, 1862, p. 4

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