Fulton County IN Archives Obituaries.....Derrough, Joseph M January 5, 1931
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The News-Sentinel
Friday, January 9, 1931
Coroner A. E. STINSON today gave a verdict of suicide in the death of Joseph 
M. DERROUGH, aged 40, manager of the local branch of the Armour Company in 
East Rochester, who was found dead in his room at the Barrett Hotel last 
Monday morning by a porter when he went to call him for the day.  Derrough 
bled to death from a self-inflicted wound, a cut on the left side of the 
throat which was three inches long and two inches deep and which had severed 
the jugular vein Coroner Stinson said.

Derrough, according to Coroner Stinson must have been conscious for at least 
20 minutes after he had cut his throat. Derrough’s family discount the suicide 
theory saying he had no reason to end his life as he had neither domestic nor 
financial worries Detectives who investigated the case say that had Derrough 
been attacked he would have been able to utter a cry of distress as he was 
neither bound nor gagged when he was found.

Derrough was found under the bed in his room clad only in his underwear, socks 
and trousers. The walls, floor and clothes closet in Derrough’s room were 
spattered with blood as was his bed and the inside of his grip which contained 
insurance policies totaling $15,000. A blood-covered razor belonging to 
Derrough, found in his grip, is believed to have been the instrumet which was 
used by Derrough in cutting his throat.

Before arriving at his verdict Coroner Stinson took depositions from Hugh 
McMAHAN, landlord of the Barret Hotel, S. K. GUNTHER a traveling salesman of 
Indianapolis who occupied a room adjoining the one in which Derrough died, 
Walter TRAVIS porter at the hotel who found the body, Oliver DERROUGH of 
Champaign, Ill., father of the decesed and C. S. HOWARD of Cincinnati, Ohio, a 
traveling salesman who occupied a room on the second floor directly under the 
one in which Derrough died. Funeral services for Derrough were held Thurday 
afternoon at Champaign, Ill.

Derrough came to this city 10 weeks ago to manage the Armour plant. While here 
he made a number of friends. He had been in the employ of the Armour Company 
for the past nine years during which period he rose to the position of first 
assistant manager of the produce department. Derrough was of a rather nervous 
disposition. Two bottles which had contained Dr. Miles Nervine tablets each of 
25 tablet capacity were found in his room one of which he had entirely 
consumed and all but seven of the other on the day he committed suicide.



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