A cemetery sexton's report published in the Weekly Clarion, Jackson, Mississippi, indicates that Col. W. H. Allen drowned when he was 65 years old.
The following article was also submitted by Paul Armstrong:
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Finding of the Body of Wm.H. Allen.
Coroner's Inquest.
In our last issue we chronicled the disappearance of our respected townsman, Wm.H. Allen, Esq., from his house on Tuesday morning last. A most industrious search stimulated by rewards amounting to one thousand dollars, was instituted ad continued, until it seemed that all hope of finding the body must be indefinitely abandoned. On Tuesday morning of this week, however, as Messrs. Geo. H. Sutherland and Geo. Dawson were rowing in a skiff back of the Capitol, they discovered the body near some trees south of the Fair Ground. The body was at once taken to the store of the deceased, where Mayor McGill, acting as Coroner, summoned a jury of inquest, whose report is as follows:
We the Jury summoned to hold an inquest upon the body of Wm.H. Allen, this 21st day of April, 1874, at Jackson, Miss., find that from the evidence of the attending Physician and other witnesses brought before us, that, owing to protracted sickness which caused a partial derangement of his mind, we are of the opinion that he came to his death from drowning whilst laboring under such derangement, there appearing no marks of violence upon his person, the body being found by George Dawson and Geo. H. Southerland, in the back water south of and near the State Fair Grounds.
JNO.W. ROBINSON, Foreman.
J.A. KAUSLER,
A. VIRDEN,
S. VIRDEN,
E.B. STEDMAN,
CHAS. WINKLEY.
The Weekly Clarion, Jackson, Miss., April 23, 1874.
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The following article was also submitted by Paul Armstrong:
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Finding of the Body of Wm.H. Allen.
Coroner's Inquest.
In our last issue we chronicled the disappearance of our respected townsman, Wm.H. Allen, Esq., from his house on Tuesday morning last. A most industrious search stimulated by rewards amounting to one thousand dollars, was instituted ad continued, until it seemed that all hope of finding the body must be indefinitely abandoned. On Tuesday morning of this week, however, as Messrs. Geo. H. Sutherland and Geo. Dawson were rowing in a skiff back of the Capitol, they discovered the body near some trees south of the Fair Ground. The body was at once taken to the store of the deceased, where Mayor McGill, acting as Coroner, summoned a jury of inquest, whose report is as follows:
We the Jury summoned to hold an inquest upon the body of Wm.H. Allen, this 21st day of April, 1874, at Jackson, Miss., find that from the evidence of the attending Physician and other witnesses brought before us, that, owing to protracted sickness which caused a partial derangement of his mind, we are of the opinion that he came to his death from drowning whilst laboring under such derangement, there appearing no marks of violence upon his person, the body being found by George Dawson and Geo. H. Southerland, in the back water south of and near the State Fair Grounds.
JNO.W. ROBINSON, Foreman.
J.A. KAUSLER,
A. VIRDEN,
S. VIRDEN,
E.B. STEDMAN,
CHAS. WINKLEY.
The Weekly Clarion, Jackson, Miss., April 23, 1874.
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A cemetery sexton's report published in the Weekly Clarion, Jackson, Mississippi, indicates that Col. W. H. Allen drowned when he was 65 years old.
The following article was also submitted by Paul Armstrong:
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Finding of the Body of Wm.H. Allen.
Coroner's Inquest.
In our last issue we chronicled the disappearance of our respected townsman, Wm.H. Allen, Esq., from his house on Tuesday morning last. A most industrious search stimulated by rewards amounting to one thousand dollars, was instituted ad continued, until it seemed that all hope of finding the body must be indefinitely abandoned. On Tuesday morning of this week, however, as Messrs. Geo. H. Sutherland and Geo. Dawson were rowing in a skiff back of the Capitol, they discovered the body near some trees south of the Fair Ground. The body was at once taken to the store of the deceased, where Mayor McGill, acting as Coroner, summoned a jury of inquest, whose report is as follows:
We the Jury summoned to hold an inquest upon the body of Wm.H. Allen, this 21st day of April, 1874, at Jackson, Miss., find that from the evidence of the attending Physician and other witnesses brought before us, that, owing to protracted sickness which caused a partial derangement of his mind, we are of the opinion that he came to his death from drowning whilst laboring under such derangement, there appearing no marks of violence upon his person, the body being found by George Dawson and Geo. H. Southerland, in the back water south of and near the State Fair Grounds.
JNO.W. ROBINSON, Foreman.
J.A. KAUSLER,
A. VIRDEN,
S. VIRDEN,
E.B. STEDMAN,
CHAS. WINKLEY.
The Weekly Clarion, Jackson, Miss., April 23, 1874.
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The following article was also submitted by Paul Armstrong:
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Finding of the Body of Wm.H. Allen.
Coroner's Inquest.
In our last issue we chronicled the disappearance of our respected townsman, Wm.H. Allen, Esq., from his house on Tuesday morning last. A most industrious search stimulated by rewards amounting to one thousand dollars, was instituted ad continued, until it seemed that all hope of finding the body must be indefinitely abandoned. On Tuesday morning of this week, however, as Messrs. Geo. H. Sutherland and Geo. Dawson were rowing in a skiff back of the Capitol, they discovered the body near some trees south of the Fair Ground. The body was at once taken to the store of the deceased, where Mayor McGill, acting as Coroner, summoned a jury of inquest, whose report is as follows:
We the Jury summoned to hold an inquest upon the body of Wm.H. Allen, this 21st day of April, 1874, at Jackson, Miss., find that from the evidence of the attending Physician and other witnesses brought before us, that, owing to protracted sickness which caused a partial derangement of his mind, we are of the opinion that he came to his death from drowning whilst laboring under such derangement, there appearing no marks of violence upon his person, the body being found by George Dawson and Geo. H. Southerland, in the back water south of and near the State Fair Grounds.
JNO.W. ROBINSON, Foreman.
J.A. KAUSLER,
A. VIRDEN,
S. VIRDEN,
E.B. STEDMAN,
CHAS. WINKLEY.
The Weekly Clarion, Jackson, Miss., April 23, 1874.
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