Posted by Cathy Gowdy on Saturday, April 10, 2010 at 06:39:48 :
The Marin Journal
Thursday, October 4, 1917
Page 4
John Nelson, concerning whom little is known, asked Tuesday noon to be allowed to spend the night in the county jail. A few hours later he was found dead in his cell. He had hanged himself by attaching a cord to a heating pipe in the top of the cell. He was about 45 years of age. He told Under Sheriff that he had been on a ten days’ debauch and wished to “sober up.” Coroner Sawyer took charge of the remains.
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