P. W. Morris

First Name: P.
Middle Name(s): W.
Last Name: Morris
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
Cause of Death
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
Drowning
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say that the deceased came to his death by his own act to wit by drowning himself in the well in the Hotel yard at the Wavesly House?after first having made several attempts to destroy his life by stabbing himself upopn the neck, and left-side, under temporary insanity.

COD Short Description: 
jumped in well
Original Record: 
2444

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