Samuel Little suicide
from the New Jersey Mirror 24 Jul 1889
Samuel L. Little, of Bridgeboro finally succeeded in committing suicide Friday by hanging himself up to a rafter in his blacksmith shop, where he was found by Smith Loyd and William Meeks early in the morning dead. Mr. Litle who has for some time shown signs of derangement and who has been in confinement once, but was deemed sufficiently recovered to be released, was a sufferer from nervous dyspepsia, and had gotten the idea into his head that his place was going to ruin, hence the deed which he attempted once before about Easter. The deceased did a good day's work on Thursday and went to bed apparently all right, but was missed by his wife about five o'clock in the morning. He had cut one of the ropes from the hammock and going to his blacksmith shop, near the house, tied it around his neck, then taking a chair he fastened the other end to a rafter and kicked the chair away. When found his feet touched the ground but he was dead.
Samuel L. Little, of Bridgeboro finally succeeded in committing suicide Friday by hanging himself up to a rafter in his blacksmith shop, where he was found by Smith Loyd and William Meeks early in the morning dead. Mr. Litle who has for some time shown signs of derangement and who has been in confinement once, but was deemed sufficiently recovered to be released, was a sufferer from nervous dyspepsia, and had gotten the idea into his head that his place was going to ruin, hence the deed which he attempted once before about Easter. The deceased did a good day's work on Thursday and went to bed apparently all right, but was missed by his wife about five o'clock in the morning. He had cut one of the ropes from the hammock and going to his blacksmith shop, near the house, tied it around his neck, then taking a chair he fastened the other end to a rafter and kicked the chair away. When found his feet touched the ground but he was dead.
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