Posted by Cathy Gowdy on Tuesday, September 11, 2012 at 06:22:28 :
The Marin Journal
Thursday, September 20, 1900
page 4
Suicide at San Quentin
On Thursday last Coroner Eden went to San Quentin to hold an inquest on the body of C. B. SMITH, a convict who had been in the pen for a few months. The verdict was that Smith had committed suicide on the evening of September 11, by cutting his throat with a case knife after having been locked up in his cell for the night. He was about 50 years of age.
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