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The Muskegon Chronicle
Thursday, 3 July, 1879

         The coroner's jury in the case of HENRY PRESTON, who died
       suddenly at a tavern in Newaygo last week, rendered a de-
       cision of poisoning by his own hands. The general opinion
       of the people is that he took the poison while laboring un-
       der a fit of despondency caused by the recent loss of his
       property. WM. WHITMAN, the keeper of the house at which he
       lived, has since been appointed administrator. It appears
       that the woman with whom he had been living, and who also
       died rather mysteriously last December, was not his sister,
       as was represented, and that this property was not his own,
       but that she allowed him to have the handling of it. The
       woman has a daughter, married and living in Illinois, who,
       as the rightful heir, will come on and claim her due in
       the course of a few days. It is probable that the body of
       the woman will be exhumed and an examination made in order
       to ascertain if she came to her death by poisoning. There
       is considerable feeling at Newaygo over the matter.
       
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