Lakewood Citizen 13 Aug 1920
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News from New Egypt, 1905
New Egypt Press 21 Apr 1905: The Tuckahoe River is the favorite haunt of many Philadelphia anglers. The Carpenters and Joiners Local Union, of Millville, celebrated its sixteenth anniversary with a banquet on Monday night. Struck by a Jersey Central train at Greenwich yesterday, 14 year old Robert E. LEAMING had a leg cut off. He was taken to Bridgeton Hospital. There is a slight improvement in the glass condition of South Jersey and manufacturers say the factories now in operation will continue to the end of the blast, June 30. The Board of Freeholders of Cape May County has awarded the contract of regraveling the new county road across teh meadow, from Five Mile Beach to the mainland, to former Senator Hand. It is believed at Paterson that the woman who committed suicide in Altoona, PA Monday by throwing herself under a freight train was Mrs. Fannie LONG of Paterson. She had gone to Altoona to see her husband, who was ill in a hospital.
Judson Warren obituary, 1910
from the New Egypt Press 4 March 1910 Judson Warren, 46 years old, residing with his sister and brother, Harry Warren, at Bordentown, committed suicide at his home on Sunday. He went into the cellar, tied a rope around his neck, fastened it to the coalbin, after which he took a razor and slashed his throat, severing the windpipe, and cut his wrists. He was found by his brother, who had gone to the cellar to fix the fire in the heater. Harry Pippitt was called in and cut him down. Warren's sister, who is ill, had been waited upon by him, and besides had been out of work for some months, which is thought to have prompted him to commit the deed.
Zebulon Webb obituary, 1819
from the New Jersey Mirror 15 Dec 1819 On the night of December 7, 1819, a man by the name of Zebulon Webb, who resided about 20 miles from Mount Holly, on a road leading to the sea shore, put an end to his existence, by hanging himself in his own house. We understand he went to bed as usual, got up in the night unknown to his wife and family, and was found dead in the morning, hanging by the neck. On December 8, 1819, a Coroner's Inquest was held upon the body, by which Inquisition it was found, that the deceased came to his death by voluntarily and feloniously hanging himself with a cord. The deceased left a wife and several children to lament his unnatural and untimely death.
Nathan Gerber suicide, 1913
New Jersey Courier 11 Jul 1913 Tuckerton, July 6--In a fit of despondency, due it it supposed by his family and friends, to a belief that he was suffering from an incurable disease, Nathan Gerber, a wealthy merchant of this place, committed suicide this morning by cutting his throat and leaping or falling from the open window of the third floor of his store building to the ground. Gerber was one of the most influential Hebrews in South Jersey, and was the owner of a chain of stores in Tuckerton, Atlantic City and Mount Holly. He was supposed to be a wealthy man, and to all his acquaintances, excepting his family and his few intimates, was believed to be in good health. However, he had been feeling bad recently and went to Philadelphia to consult a specialist. What he was told no one knows, for he would not talk about his visit to the physician with his family. He had been melancholy and brooding since. This morning Gerber was up early, and bought a horse from a neighbor, and wen
Suicide of William Aarons, 1907
New Jersey Mirror 12 Jun 1907 The funeral of the late William Aarons took place yesterday. Mr. Aarons was found by one of the employees at the Florence Iron Works on Friday ,having hung himself to a beam in the barn
Nelson Grant obituary, 1929
from the New Jersey Courier 23 Apr 1929 Capt. Nelson Grant, 80 years of age, a life long resident of Lacey Township, honored and respected by all who knew him, killed himself on Thursday morning, August 22, by sending a load of shot through his breast. He lived not far from the Central Railroad station at Lanoka Harbor. At 6:15 that morning he went over to the station with a single barreled shot gun. It is assumed that he sat down with the gun between his knees, butt on the ground and leaned over so that the muzzle was against his chest. Then with a bit of shingle lathe he pushed the trigger, launching himself into eternity. His death was probably instantaneous, as he was found sitting up, the gun between his knees. Capt.Nelson Grant was an oldtime waterman. In his early days he went to sea. Later he spent a long time in the Life-Saving service, till laid off from disability acquired in the service. After that he was an oyster planter and bayman. For a long time before the small Boar
Suicide at Keeler's Corner, 1906
New Jersey Mirror 7 Feb 1906 A shocking suicide occurred at Keeler's Corner, near Pemberton, about seven o'clock Friday morning, when Mrs. Ellis Bird ended her life with her husband's double-barrelled shotgun. Melancholy and seemingly a nervous wreck, Mrs. Bird had been in a bad way mentally for a long time and recently she stated that she did not care to live longer. Early on Friday morning after her husband had left home for the farm on which he is employed the woman secured the shotgun and locked herself in a room away from their three young children. Loading the weapon, Mrs. Bird placed the stock on the floor, leaned with her head against the muzzle and pushed the trigger with a candy cane that had been given to one of the children. Death must have been instantaneous, as a greater part of the top of the unfortunate woman's head was blown off by the large shot contained in the shell. Flesh and blood were scattered about the room and it was a sickening sight to those
Suicide of Edwin Bachman, 1921
New Jersery Mirror 2 Feb 1921 The body of Edwin A. Bachman, of Burlington, an inmate of the County Insane Asylum at New Lisbon, who escaped from that institution early in November, was found in Rancocas creek a little above Pemberton on Sunday evening. Bachman, who was 35 years of age and single, was a braid manufacturer in the river-front city. After attempting to commit suicide by cutting his throat with a razor last fall when suffering from a nervous breakdown, he was taken to the county asylum where it was hoped he would recover his mental balance. He succeeded in escaping the vigilance of those having charge over him, however, and nothing more was heard of the unfortunate man until his body was discovered in the creek. The supposition is that Bachman made his way to the creek and drowned himself immediately after his escape and that his body drifted down to the point where it was found on Sunday evening.