John G. Gorley

First Name: John
Middle Name(s): G.
Last Name: Gorley
Sex: 
Male
Age Descriptor: 
50
Race: 
White
Cause of Death
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
Hanging
COD Method/Implement: 
rope
COD Inquest Finding: 

the said John G. Gorly came to his death?by having been hanged by the nexck until his body was dead, by means of a certain of a certain grass rope fastened to the limb of a certain oak sapling near to the spot where the bones then lay....and that Henry J. Knauff of Pendleton village...and John Baskins and Thompson Oliver...did there and there feloneously hang and murder the said John G. Gorly

COD Short Description: 
hanged self on oak sapling
Original Record: 
2420

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