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Detroit Free Press
Friday, 15 July 1859

         We learn that on Sunday, the 30th ult., NEWMAN BOTSFORD,
       a son of LEMUEL BOTSFORD, committed suicide by cutting his
       throat from ear to ear. It is supposed that, at the time
       of the meloncholy occurrence, he was laboring under a fit
       of insanity. Some three years since he had a severe fit of
       sickness, from which he appears to have never fully re-
       covered. After a partial restoration to health, his friends
       saw indications that he was laboring under a mental malady,
       and he was sent to the Insane Asylum at Utica, N.Y., where
       he remained for about two years. Last fall he returned home,
       restored, apparently, to his right mind, and his friends
       saw nothing to lead them to fear another attack, until the
       middle of last week. On Sabbath morning he was about as
       usual. He shaved himself, and appeared as well, if not bet-
       ter, than he had been the day before. - About three o'clock
       he was seen to leave the house, a few hours after he was
       missing, and, on looking where he usually kept his razor,
       it was not to be found. This aroused the fears of his
       friends, and search was immediately made, but without suc-
       cess until the next morning, when he was discovered in the
       orchard with his throat cut as above stated. The deceased
       was about 25 years of age. - Pontiac Jacksonian July 14.
       
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