This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Patterson Classification: Death Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AFB.2ACE/1729.1 Message Board Post: >Patterson, James W.; died 8/7/1899; male; married; >49 yrs, 4 mos, 8 days; disease of heart, pulmonery >adema, intercranial hemorage, perhaps from violence If you suspect deceased was a victim of foul play, consult the State Medical Examiner's reports at the Massachusetts State Archives. The bodies of persons whose demise was the result of homicide, suicide, drowning, or other accidental death unattended by a physician, would require a viewing and report from a medical examiner. These reports are sometines quite extensive. Also check for news stories in the local and Boston papers. The Boston Globe, for example, has the following: STRUCK WITH STONE.; North Cambridge Man's Skull Practured. James Patterson Had Dispute With Stranger at Woburn. Latter Fled After Inflicting Injury and Can't be Found. -Boston Globe, Aug 7, 1899 HIT PATTERSON.; James E. Darmody Gave Knockout Blow. Profossional Club and Musket Swinger of Woburn. Did Not Realize Affair Was So Serious. Surrendered Himself to Chief of Police. Victim Removed to Home in North Cambridge. -Boston Globe, Aug 8, 1899 BLOW PROVES FATAL.; James Patterson, Assaulted in Woburn, Dies-James E. Darmody Arraigned and Pleads Not Guilty. -Boston Globe, Aug 9, 1899 Funeral of James W. Patterson -Boston Globe, Aug 11, 1899 DARMODY ACQUITTED.; Had Been Accused in Court at Woburn of Assault and Battery on James Patterson. -Boston Globe, Aug 13, 1899 The full text of these stories and other reports of Patterson's death can be found on the website of the Boston Public Library at http://www.bpl.org A BPL Library card number is required to access the database. BPL cards can be issued to any resident of Massachusetts. Dennis Ahern [no relation] Middlesex County Massachusetts Newspaper Abstracts http://www.rootsweb.com/~mamidnws