A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > Kentucky > Jefferson http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=2681 Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=32734 Submitted by: Marymackenzie1@gmail.com Article Title: The Missouri Republican Article Date: September 4 1883 Article Description: Suicide in Jail Article Text: Louisville, Sept 3.--John Stinson, a young man who had just attained his majority, was arrested this morning while attempting to throw himself head first from the top of a freight car. He said he had tried to make a man of himself, had failed, was no good and wanted to die. He was taken to jail and within fifteen minutes had climbed to the top corridor and threw himself to the stone flagging below, fracturing his skull and dying in a few minutes. He had been despondent some time and bade his family good-by this morning, saying they would probably see him no more. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ KY-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com