This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Death Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JW.2ADE/7896 Message Board Post: Jailed Man Commits Suicide Abelino A. Herrera, 33, of 3830. Eagle Street, Los Angeles, was found dead in his cell in Tehachapi jail Monday night July 26. He had been arrested earlier in the evening by Police Chief Roland FA. Johnson, on a drunk count as reported to Deputy Coroner Ross Jones. At 8 p.m. he was given cigarettes by the jailer but at 9 :30 was found hanging from a window bar with his belt fastened to the bar and around his throat. He was cut down and resusitation applied by the Kern County Fire Dept. without success. The body was removed to the O'Donnell Funeral Home in Mojave. Remains have been transferred to Basque & Sons Mortuary of Los Angeles for funeral arrangements. Posted by East Kern Genealogical Society Courtesy of Mojave Desert News California City, Kern, CA Published: 29 Jul 1954