Alexander Calder

First Name: Alexander
Last Name: Calder
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
Cause of Death
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
Hanging
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say upon theur oaths, that the afores. Alexand Calder came to his death, in his own house, on the 15th day of May, by means of a rope round his neck, fastened to a Joyst, or pole in his own house, by it he was suspended, or hung

COD Short Description: 
hung himself in his house
Original Record: 
5042

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