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Inquest |
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From the Northampton Mercury of 21 April 1838:
On Wednesday the 11th inst an inquisition was taken at the Globe Inn Hanslope, before J W Cowley Esq. Coroner for the Northern Division of Bucks and a respectable jury on view of the body of Thomas Woodland, a labourer of that parish, who, on the Monday previous went to his work, which was hoeing wheat, but complained to his fellow labourer that he could not work; he then went about two miles to a lone house, which inhabited, and in a barn belonging, hanged himself by a silk handkerchief to a beam in the barn, he was not found until life was quite extinct, he had been in a law desponding way for some time past, and often threatened to make away with himself.
Verdict - Lunacy.
Deceased was in his 55th year of age and was a pensioner, and had fought at the Battles of Salamanca and Badajos, when he received a wound in the side. |
