Christian County IL Archives Obituaries.....Findlay, James December 4, 1899
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Nineteenth Annual Report of the Illinois Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1900
December 4, 1899, James Findlay, aged 40 years, a widower with four children, 
committed suicide in a most unique manner by blowing off his head with a stick 
of dynamite, in the mine of the Assumption Coal and Mining Co., at Assumption. 
Deceased had been on a prolonged spree, and had just returned to work and was 
feeling very despondent, telling his partner that he was going to kill himself 
that day; but his partner paid no attention to his threat, and treated it as the 
mutterings of a semi-drunken man, who was feeling ill on account of his long 
spree, but it appears he (deceased) was in earnest about it, and took a stick of 
dynamite, which they kept on hand for brushing, and wandered off into an 
adjoining room that was not working at the time, and placed the dynamite under 
his head with great precision and care, lighting the fuse which caused the stuff 
to explode with great violence, tearing away his whole head and a part of his 
arm.

Additional Comments:
Nineteenth Annual Report of the Illinois Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1900, Also 
the Second Annual Report of the Illinois Free Employment Offices; David Ross, 
Secretary. Springfield, ILL: Phillips Bros, State Printers; 1901

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