Peoria County IL Archives News.....James King, Suicide November 21, 1878
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Decatur [IL] Weekly Reporter November 21, 1878
Peoria, Ill., Nov. 17.-James King, an Irishman, about thirty years of age, 
committed suicide last evening by hanging himself in the hay-loft of a barn at 
his sister's residence, where he lived. He drove a staple in the beam and 
attached to it a rope, which he took from around a bale of hay, and thus hung 
himself. He was formerly a section man on the Peoria, Pekin & Jacksonville 
Railroad, and had saved $800, which he had deposited in the Pulsifer Bank, 
that broke two years ago. Soon afterwards he became insane, and was sent to 
the hospital at Jacksonville. About a month ago he was believed to be cured, 
and was sent home again, but his suicide shows that his mind was still 
deranged. The bank failure is supposed to have been the cause of his insanity, 
and though it occurred two years ago, the assets have provided only one 
dividend of 10 per cent thus far; the liabilities were nearly $1,000,000.

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