Samuel M. Dowel

First Name: Samuel
Middle Name(s): M.
Last Name: Dowel
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
Cause of Death
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
Sharp Instrument
COD Method/Implement: 
knife
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say, that the deceased came to his death ... by cuting his own Jugular veins with a knife

COD Short Description: 
cut own jugular
Original Record: 
2355

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