Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Bullet Through His Head

New York, 1895

Jacob Weyrich of Oyster Bay committed suicide Tuesday afternoon by shooting himself. His daughter hearing a report of a revolver in the barn, gave the alarm. Weyrich was found with a bullet hole through his head from temple to temple. He was 56 years of age. No cause can be assigned for the act, as he was in his usual spirits at noon.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, May 24, 1895, p. 8.

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