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    1. [OXF] STRONG , HUMPHRIES , HARRIS and BARTLETT ( 1866 )
    2. >From Jackson's Oxford Journal, Saturday, January 6, 1866; Issue 5880. ABINGDON. SUICIDE AT HARWELL. - On Tuesday the 26th ult. a man named James STRONG , aged about 65, was found dead in his bed-room, he having suspended himself by a cord from the bed-post. The evidence at an inquest held on the body before Dr. A. D. BARTLETT , Esq., Coroner, at the Crown, on the following day, went to show that the deceased had for some time previous to his death complained of severe pain in his head, which according to his own expression, made him " not know what he was about;" and the Jury gave a verdict that the deceased hung himself while in an unsound state of mind. AWFULLY SUDDEN DEATH. - On Friday the 29th ult. an inquest was held before A. D. BARTLETT , Esq., Coroner, on the body of Edmund HUMPHRIES , of Bartram's-row, Spring Road. It appeared from the evidence that the deceased, and his son and others, in the employ of Messrs. HARRIS and Son, bootmakers, of the Bath Street, had a Christmas supper at the house of their employers on the previous night, and left when the party broke up, at about half-past twelve o'clock. On reaching home HUMPHRIES' son left his father near the door for a minute, and on coming back found him on the ground. The poor man was raised but he was speechless, and on assistance arriving it was found that he was dead. The deceased had complained of a pain in the chest on the left side and a swelling often round the middle of the body. VERDICT, " Sudden death by the visitation of God."

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