OSHKOSH COURIER

September 9, 1857

 

            SUICIDE – A young man about twenty years of age, name unknown, hung himself on the 29^th ult., in the house of John Gorman in the town of Iola, Waupaca Co.  He was five feet, six inches high, with dark eyes, brown hair, and regular features.  He was dressed in coarse linen pantaloons, red flannel shirt, and appeared to be a raftsman or river driver.  The people of Iola gave him a decent burial.