OBIT: John HAHN, 1889, Allegheny County, PA

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SUICIDED WHILE INSANE.
Death of John Hahn From Self-Inflicted Injuries.

  John Hahn died at the Mercy Hospital on Friday night from a self-
inflicted wound.  Mr. Hahn was taken to the hospital on Tuesday, the 
9th inst., and on Friday delirium tremens had developed.  He took his 
penknife and cut this throat in his room, an attendant finding him dead 
on the floor at 11 o'clock Friday night.  An inquest was held Saturday 
morning, and a verdict of suicide was rendered.
  Mr. Hahn was fifty-four years of age, a glass worker, and was well 
known on the South Side, where he held an interest in the Ihmsen Co-
Operative Glass Company on South Fourteenth street.  He leaves a wife, 
three daughters and two sons.  Two of the daughters are married and the 
other members of the family life on the South Side.

Pittsburgh Post, Pittsburgh, Pa., April 19, 1889