. . . attempted to commit suicide at his residence in New York, last week, by jumping from an upper window of his residence. He was badly hurt, but still living at last accounts. Christy has made a fortune of $200,000 by the “Minstrels,” and probably attempted suicide while laboring under an attack of delirium tremens.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 17, 1862, p. 2
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